Are you afraid to live?

No one experiences their own death, but we go through mourning for others until we realize that life goes on...

Human beings tend to value life based on the feeling of death. Why, if death does not exist for those who exist?

No one experiences their own death, but we go through mourning for others until we realize that life goes on. The fear of suffering seems to be inevitable, but it shouldn't stop us from living with everything we can live.

We all know that we're not going to take any of this into another life, but we worry about what we're going to leave behind and how our family members are going to look. With that, we are assaulted by thoughts that prevent us from understanding that each person has their path and that it is not up to anyone to determine how long and the quality of the journey each one will have.

It is possible that in a state of suffering, we realize how much life has passed without our noticing.

Amazing experiences pass us by unnoticed, a fact that keeps us from appreciating how blessed we are by the life we have. It is quite true that the difficulties or even the misery (in which some people can find themselves) lead the human being to wish to pass to the astral plane as soon as possible – perhaps an eccentric thinking for the relief of the soul.

However, what life would that be that we don't even have sparks of clarity?

We are beings anxious for a life that we do not know and that is not even available to us and, therefore, we forget – many times – that the life we have is full of elements that bring daily discoveries. If we don't have the ability to notice it, we will exist for the sake of existing, aiming every day to live a life that doesn't exist for us who are here.

What's after this life? Is there life after death?

Questions like these make us run the risk of losing the best experiences here just because we are not living with soul. This is not a world of fantasies, because fantasy is built in the minds of those who do not accept reality.

Any theory about what happens after death is the result of beliefs that conjecture a new reality, but that there is no possibility of empirical proof while existing in this world.

I tend to agree with Epicurus' statement below:

"Death is nothing to us, because when we exist, there is no death. When there is death, we no longer exist".

Anderson Cruz.

Writer, therapist and graduate student in philosophy.