swampert97
Active Member
Coming in last at Nats.:frown:
Being helpless, which means I see something happening and I cannot do a single thing about it.
Probably I took the wrong word.
But example, my son got very sick months ago (and still is) and there is nothing I can do to help him.
And those situations are what I fear.
If you apply that greek philosopher's analogy, you should never feel ANYTHING that is not with you.
World Peace. Is it possible? In our lifetime, doubtful. But people still try and spend their lives attaining it. So if it will only come when one is not alive, why bother? Why fear/love something that only exists when you do not?
That argument is really poor.
Why NOT fear death? It is the only thing in the universe which can truly take everything away from you. Your memories, your job, your kids, your house, your livelihood. It will consume you wholly and leave nothing left. You will never have existed. Having fears of failure or heights... seem small compared to death- which has every fear wrapped inside itself. Fear failure? After death your life will literally have never existed.
If you won't remember your doings, why bother doing anything? For your friends or family? And when they're dead and there exists no record of you? What purpose did you have? To perpetuate the species? Who cares? One should live for themselves- that's all we can do. If you can only live for yourself, and death takes everything that living for yourself does, then death should be the epitome of that which should be feared.