Death Meditation XXIII

Daily Meditation 691–1/18/2024
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Mortality is natural. Aging is natural. Children are natural. Greying hair, wrinkles, age spots, and sagging, weakening muscles are natural.

Embrace them as they come.

Do not resist or fight back so hard against the changing of the seasons in your life. Just as people complain about shoveling snow so, too, do we gripe about getting old.

From the moment you spring forth into adulthood, it seems we are kicking and flailing, fighting against the grave and Death, himself, acting as if there are horrible, pustule-riddled zombies dragging us into the earth. But, this is not so.

In all man’s history, never before have we fought so hard against death. Between modern alchemy (pharma and medicine) and witchcraft (technology), it seems as though we are smugly smirking, pushing up our glasses as we stare down Death with arrogance in our mien.

We’ve always done things like moving and eating well, hoping it helps us.

But now, we use syringes, dyes, surgeries and high-science to scrape up just a single day extra. We stare longingly into the wise “Mirror Mirror on the Wall” that is AI and filters, showing us we…