Palm Springs Kansas

“完滿的人生 The Complete Life (why life is always the fullest). I think it’s a mistake to view death as being nearer than yesterday as if we are given a quota…”

I think it’s a mistake to view death as being nearer than yesterday as if we are given a quota called “life”. Most people view life as this substance that we “use up” with time as we age, and each day that passes by, we use up more of this life-stuff and move closer to death. It’s also interesting to note that people seem to always have a notion of an “entitled generalized lifespan”. Meaning that most people think they somehow have a sort of a right to live to a certain age, and that if they do not reach that self-proclaimed age, they consider their lives to be incomplete. 

For instance, most people would consider somebody’s life to be more “complete” if he gets to live to be 90 than say, somebody who died at the age of 30. The person who died at 90 lived a more complete life because he filled up more of his life bucket, where the 30 year old lived a less “complete” life because he didn’t use up his expected life quotas like he should have. 

But a person does NOT have a life quota to begin with. We are not like prisoners who are waiting for execution, with the date and time of death written down already. People of course, live for a certain number of days. But since the exact date of your death is unknown, it is illogical to think that we are moving closer to death with each passing day. The date of your death is always in constant state of flux. Everything that you do, and everything that happens to you through out life pushes or pulls that date further or closer from you.