Looking Death In The Face Makes Us Brave
Looking death in the face makes us brave people. When our existence is in danger, fears disappear, doubts stop tormenting us and remorse for not having achieved everything we wanted in time. Because death, just as it terrifies us, also gives us a courage we didn’t know we possessed.
We are aware that every minute counts and that we should start enjoying every moment. However, we procrastinate because we prioritize projects, jobs, concerns and other things that take up all of our time, the value of which is easily diminished. Until our life hangs by a thread and we realize how wrong we were.
Take risks, do not remain with the desire
You wanted to say it, but you were afraid they would reject you. You wanted to say those words, but the possibility of losing made you change your mind. The shame, the doubts, that “it’s not that important” have established in your mind a “what would have happened if…?”. A collection of uncertainties that will accompany you forever, from which you will never free yourself. The important thing is that these do not increase.
We are brave when, too close to death, we begin to see these and other attitudes as nonsense. We blame and complain that we didn’t have the courage to say or do what we wanted when we heard it. If we still have time, we will try to remedy these situations. If not, we will be filled with guilt.
Life teaches us through experiences that it is always good to appreciate it. However, it does so in a subtle way and the negative impacts that persist in our consciousness are brief. Remember that person so important that you did not know how to value until you lost them. It was then that you understood what they repeated to you over and over, but that you did not want to hear: “value people when they are by your side, and not when you lose them”.
Excuses have taken hold of you as do worries or negative thoughts that you cannot free yourself from. They are like a shield you use not to force yourself, to convince yourself of the idea – exhausting and sometimes placid – that you lack the time, to believe that you are not good enough, not to make the decision to enter into a relationship with a person you love. …
What do you have to lose?
Sometimes the fact that the experience of closeness to death makes us brave is a consequence of having nothing to lose at that moment. What does it matter that they tell us a “yes” or a “no”? What does it matter if they refuse us? In such moments the only solution is to try, because if the answer is positive, we will gain something, and if it is negative, we will not have lost anything.
This is the attitude we should take to live today, tomorrow, always. Because in our mind there are infinite barriers resulting from traumas, experiences that we would have liked to forget and other circumstances that have caused us injuries and transformed us into insecure people. However, the “no” is already yours. Accept it, make it yours and don’t be afraid to fail. Because what you will lose, you did not even have it before, so you risk!
Many of the obstacles you see are just the amazing product of your imagination. Limits created by both cowards and brave ones; however, the brave people face them, while the cowards avoid them.
Courageous people fight against all limiting beliefs and do not allow anyone to convey to them the fear of what they do not know. Because many times we find excuses and affect our future. We assume it, we precede it. Being aware that it is unpredictable and that it holds many surprises, why are we cowardly about this?
Expectations, pride, fear of ridicule and fear of failure… All this vanishes when we face death. It seems incredible that what scares us most, the fear of vanishing, of being forgotten, is what gives us the most courage. That end, which we always hope will come as late as possible, is what makes us brave when we no longer have the opportunity to be.
Images courtesy of Christian Schloe
