What about another perspective?

People dream night and day and assume visions are inevitable.  Yet, what they believe is not always truth.   Every moment you can choose to transform your understanding.

For instance, death is a topic everyone knows about, but few people feel comfortable discussing it.  How many people do you know who have pre-planned funerals and pre-written obituaries? You may sense impending doom, emptiness, or another reason to create fear and avoid the topic. What if you choose to nurture another perspective?

I used to sing in a choir with women much older than I. When it came to lyrics, they sometimes went so far as to omit verses that mentioned graveyards or references to 'passing on'.  They preferred not to face the topic, thinking that would expedite what they did not want.  They were superstitious as mentioning 'funeral' was almost taboo.

If you know anyone diagnosed with an illness, then you recognize how they react to what they hear.  Some people accept the verdict as carved in stone.  They resolve to die and wait for the grim reaper to arrive at a doorstep.  Other people believe a diagnosis and prognosis are opinions.  These people choose to positively perceive all conditions.  Self-condeming burdens offer lessons just as peaceful reactions to crisis.  You choose.

How you perceive your own dreams tells where you are in your own growth process.  This is not a measurable place with longitude and latitude, but it is not the abyss either.  Nothing is random.  You interpret your experiences based on what you are prepared to accept.  Different levels of love and fear exist.  You choose a perspective, "in the now."

Comments

[Alexys Fairfield]

Liara,
That is such an interesting story about the choir. I grew up as a Catholic and was told that every time we passed a Catholic church to make the sign of the cross for "protection." There was so much fear in Catholicism that I soon dropped out. Many people are not only afraid of death, but afraid of God and thus afraid of living.

[Liara Covert]

Alexys, the women described in this story are not Catholic. This reminds us that the fear of God and illusions about death are conditioned in ways that are not always related to a particular religion. Humans do not always choose to be aware of why they fear either.

[Alexys Fairfield]

Liara,
I didn't think they were Catholic, just thought I would offer you a Catholic story. LOL.

[Liara Covert]

Alexys, your story is meaningful and it prompted me to add a clarification to my own. I find it amusing to step back and realize the kinds of mindsets that are promoted concerning different religions. They each aspire to distinguish whenselves when the irony is that the common thread of love reminds us everyone is connected on the most fundamental levels.