I'd die for that.....


This morning after taking care of a few things I started scanning social media. Today’s thought comes from my Grand Masters page. He will from time to time post interesting memes and thoughts. Today was no different. It really has me thinking a bit.

He posted a meme of a guy holding a sign that read “Find something worth dying for….and live for it.” My first thought was “No, doubt if it is worth dying for, it’s worth living for.”

I read that earlier this morning and honestly, I have been mulling it over ever since. Sure, we all have said “I’d die for that.” Normally we are talking about a physical death, and we would be willing to lay our lives down for something, or someone. Sometimes it is such an easy thing to say that it will roll off our tongue without even thinking about it. That’s the issue we don’t think about it.

Every time you lay down at night for rest it is a symbolic death. When you wake in the morning a symbolic resurrection, or rebirth. What are we doing with the time we are given? What do we do with the fresh new day? This is important because as you get up to start your day you are leaving your old self and your old day right there.

Are we (I say we because this means me too) looking at our old self and dying to it so we can live for the new? Like a compost pile of refuse thrown in a heap and then scattered on a garden, new life emerges. Beautiful flowers, ripened vegetables, etc. New life requires old life to continue.

So are WE re-evaluating our thoughts and ideas, principles, and views. Throwing what no longer works in the compost pile and making room for the new? Then instead of mentally, emotionally, and or physically dying for that thing. Are we applying those principles of growth and living for them to make the world, outside and more importantly INSIDE ourselves a thing of beauty?

I was about to say that dying for something is easy and living for it is hard. But maybe that is not so true. To live for something and embrace something new requires change. Change is not always the easiest thing to do. It means sometimes admitting we are wrong. Or old ideas and thoughts are no longer useful. That is never easy, but in life it is necessary.

So, while we are out saying (and believing) we would die for something. Know what you are really saying that we would be willing to set it aside…and truly live for it. The ultimate sacrifice.

I love you and may we govern ourselves accordingly. 


 

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