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Death comes for us all
"To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead." ~ Miyamoto Musashi
In all of human history, written or unwritten, there is one truly universal experience. Death. It is something that i believe everyone dreads at some point in their life. It is an unexplorable, untestable, mystery. Do we cease to exist? Is there an "ever-after"? This all contributes to a natural hesitation of giving literally "your all".
For me, this proverb lends itself to say, "just how far are you willing to go?" "What is the true price are you willing to pay?" If you are in a place where 'life and death situations' is a real possibility, more often than not, anything less than every ounce of your will to do your duty, complete your mission, can result in not only the failure of your job/mission, but likely contribute to the death of others, and likely yourself anyway. But, it is only natural to come head to head with that eternal, most serious, fear.
In those situation, the only way you can "give it your all" is to come to own the fact that we all die. It is only a matter of what day/time. So, give yourself over to the knowledge that, in the history of time, you are already dead, so, give it everything, and fight as if you are already dead.
Now, a deviation from this one train of thought i have also come to know, and live by. I LIVE as if i am already dead. I am diagnosed as "severely depressed". So much so, every time i see my Psychiatrist i am given a set of questions, basically asking if i am planning on harming myself or others. I have been asked, more than once, if i have certain... instruments, at home. But, as a Christian, my belief is that, it is not up to me to determine when i will leave this life. That is ONLY for God, only for my Lord Jesus Christ to say, "it is time". So, for me, i live my life, every day as if i am already dead unto MYSELF.
If you have navigated by this page, and you are struggling, PLEASE do not fight this fight alone. You are not weak to seek help.
If you, or someone you love, is contemplating suicide: Call, or text 988 - from anywhere in the United States. If you are at your wits end, and you are not in the United States, i am researching other services around the world to share as well.
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Shōgun - life & death
As the theme of my blog here might lead you to believe, i can confirm that i have been watching the show Shōgun. I have been intrigued by the samurai since the very first release of Shadowrun in 1989 and i learned of Street Samurai. Even though the similarities between a cyberpunk "samurai" and one of Feudal Japan end, almost at the use of the word. However, since then, i have spent time delving into learning more about both worlds.
"We live and we die. We control nothing beyond that." - Toda Mariko (Fictional character, Shōgun, Netflix, 2024)
When i heard Mariko say the line above, it struck a cord with me. I know without question that God is omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, and i am fully confident that He has provided humankind with free will. However, mankind is finite, and with so many of us running around, our desires often conflict with each other. Then, toss in the rhythms of nature (weather, tectonic plates, etc.) life is unpredictable and, no matter how much power and/or influence a person might acquire, we never control everything.
We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our DNA. But, we can choose HOW we live. We can choose how we react to the things that come at us every day. I do NOT, and WILL NOT, EVER, endorse suicide, but we can choose how we face death which is indeed a universal constant among us humans.
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