Are you seeking the truth or are you hand-on-your-eyes?
It’s the ultimate reality, one I’ve avoided for far too long. But not anymore. Every experience, every emotion, every action, every thought—everything I’ve held onto as ‘mine,’ even the concept of ‘me’ itself—pales in comparison to the undeniable truth: DEATH. It’s the one certainty in life, the one thing I can’t escape. Everything else? It’s up for debate.
I’ve been living in shadows, ignorant of life’s true essence, consumed by fear and panic. I spent years searching for answers in books, chasing after the perfect scenario, oblivious to the simple fact staring me in the face: DEATH. My childhood was a quest for understanding, a pursuit of the ideal, all while overlooking the fundamental truth that to comprehend life, you must confront death. We’re all aging, decaying, and that’s okay. Embracing mortality opens the door to endless possibilities, limited only by the time we have. So choose wisely what to pursue, what to let go of. What isn’t worth your precious attention? Live now, with the knowledge that death awaits.
The consumer-driven world resists this acceptance. It urges us to accumulate more, to compete relentlessly, and to bury our heads in virtual distractions. But in this age of abundance, are we truly content? Are we truly alive, or merely existing? If this is the year you’re living in, Kabir, are you happy? Or are you still wondering why you’re not dead yet?”
Charles Bukowski once wrote, “We’re all going to die, all of us. What a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by life’s trivialities; we are eaten up by nothing.”