Escape death
Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life…now…and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
We’ve heard lots of stories about NDE ( near death experience ) but never have taken and thought of it seriously. Heard of stories of a person eating then died because he choked? It happens and it happened to me this morning. It was a close call but thank God i’m still alive. Wonder what happened?
Let me tell you the story.
6:00 A.M after my first online class, I listened to some music while eating the breakfast that I bought from the nearest fast food chain. And because i had only ten minutes to eat evrything ( rice, egg and beef) i did it really fast i was on my last bite of meat when i got lazy cutting a piece of meat (not so soft though) so i just swallowed it whole it was not that big, it was like two inches long and not that thick too, when suddenly it got stuck in my pipe i couldn’t breathe and the first thing that came to my mind was to drink water but still it wouldn’t go down. I tried to vomit it out but the first try failed, i didn’t want to die so i ran off to the rest room only to find out that i couldn’t run because the cord of the headset was around my neck and it pulled me back to my seat and believe me until now i couldn’t remember what i did to free myself from that cord, my mind was only focused on one thing and that is escaping death. I succeeded but i don’t know what i did i couldn’t remember really. It just came out i guess. Until now my throat hurts. A close call. And because of this incident i promised myself not to eat really fast. Joke! What i’m trying to say here is that this incident opened my eyes that death could really come to us anytime without any warning.
“So we have to be ready and we really have to live each day as if it were our last.” We think we are too young and death is still far from us. But we often forget that death knows no age, no ranks, no time. So ask ask yourself, Can you escape death like i did? Until when can we escape death? and the most important is “are you ready to die?”
So now i will end my story with this passage that i randomly picked while looking for death quotes. The lesson is simple “DO GOOD THINGS”
Death walks in darkness and carries away young and old, high and low, good and evil wayfarers that it meets on the way. When the wicked lie on their sick-beds, their sinking eyes look coming death in the face. The visions rise before them of the hideous approach of death. When death ends their lives, their souls live for three nights in the vicinity of their bodies. The grim memory of their wicked lives haunts them. The horrible fate that is impending for them frightens them. They see the gate of heaven slammed in their faces and hell opening to receive them. Many such ungodly persons live and die and the world weeps not, for they burdened the world and were as though better not born.
