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Life - Too Short or Too Long?
By Life-Musings.com | October 20, 2008
Every so often, we read in the newspapers about how a very young person has passed on, due to some accident or disease.
Inevitably, equally often, we hear about how it is such a waste for someone to die ’so young’ or to die ‘too young’.
I cannot say I agree.
Loss of life is, to me, always a sad event. But do we believe in *purpose*? Because, if we do, then life cannot be short or long.
A passing shower is rain, as much as a heavy downpour is rain. When the passing shower fades away, we don’t say it is over too soon, or that it is too short.
When a wave crashes to shore, it’s time is up; some waves are bigger than others.
The life of a fly or mosquito is brief, compared to the lifespan of say an elephant or a whale. Yet it is still very much a life, with a cosmic destiny to fulfil in the unfolding story of the universe.
The band “Bread”, in their hit song “Make It With You”, sang that “Life can’t be short or long”. I agree. Life is just that - life.
In any case, when talking about sheer quantity, whether a human life is 90 years long or 90 days, compared with the universe’s journey - merely billions of years - it would still be pathetically short, anyway.
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