@DocLayla 11 February 2022

Fear in death. What is it that you fear about death? Is it how unexpected it comes, like a thief in the night, snatching away the souls of our loved ones? Is it how silently it comes and before you know it, you're gone?.. Or is it about its uncertainty about when it will reach each and everyone of us? What is it to be feared actually :death or living a life without meaning? There's this quote I once read or heard somewhere I can't quite remember, it goes thus, "the most scary thing in this life is not death, but a life without meaning." There's a bossom friend of mine I was having a deep conversation with (we do have such conversations from time to time) yesterday and we were talking about life in general. One topic led to nanither and she asked me if I would want to live long, of course I replied with a positive answer and I asked her the same question and her reply was "I do not want to live that long". It doesn't sound so strange because I am aware that there are people who do not want to live that long but her reason was what really got me. Her reason was that "I am afraid of living long because then life will be uninteresting, and then it wouldn't be worth living anymore". That struck me big time. For all of us, there's a time that comes and you feel life is not worth licing. Sometimes we boincs back up and other times, we bury ourselves in that situation and we seem to be just existing, not really living. That's worse than death because then, you're alive but you're **alive**. A madman whose mental condition isn't going to get any better is sometimes not considered as a human being. A madman who roams the streets has seized to stop living and is merely existing, he's lost all his beliefs, . He doesn't have any goals in life, he doesn't have any dreams..nothing.. He just carry out all natural activities but is not really living. Most of us during our struggling years, those years were we feel like there's really nothing going on in our lives and we used to feel this emptiness within us that we strive so desperately to fill, those times when we were still trying to plant firmly our beliefs and values, those times when you keep failing and failing because you do not know who you really are. Remember those times? Well... With the current level of being you've achieved know, if you feel you are regressing to that stage in your life, wouldn't you feel like you're dying? If you still have that fear in you about going back to that stage in your life, would you consider the choice of dying rather than regressing? Have you ever imagine how you would feel if at the point of your death, you realize that all you've ever wanted to achieve in life have been achieved? Will you feel happy about dying or sad? Although that sounds very impossible as human beings are always with the next goal at hand. They always want to achieve something, they keep striving to achieve other things and we all die in with the intention or in the course of trying to achieve something, but I think it would feel damn good if you achieve the most important things in your life just before your death. When I say achievement, I am not singling out any firm of it. Achievement means different things for different people. Not necessarily money or the job they've always wanted but it also includes being a happy person and being at peace with everybody, yourself included. So dear reader, would you rather have a long life or live a short meaningful one? Thanks for reading. Special thanks to @GarrethGrey07 for the sponsorship renewal. I am very grateful.