I Have Been Thinking About Death

I've been thinking about death lately. Not my own, in general. I'm in a certain situation where It's not really an avoidable thought.
These last days what annoyed me, no, better said enrages me the most is how you're supposed to condense the meaning of a person's life in a few lines. How do you distill the years of information and emotional charge into a few words and feel that you made the right choice? Is it possible to capture their essence into such little information or into a poetical cliche? It's a question eroding at the base of my skull and I try to look away, do something fun, something stupid, anything that can move me away from the sad neighborhood that question lives in but it finds me in seconds and it's crushing my will. I wish it was about me it would be so easy: he was a boring guy and now he's dead.

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SoFine · 46-50, F

The best gift that you give you - is piece of mind.
To have peace of mind is possible with daily meditation.
We then can let go those thoughts of fear, fear of a loved one dying or those thoughts of life worry, what may or may not happen.

Our thinking is the key to a life that is lived, in each moment as it is. We spend more time in analysis with our mind chatter than in life itself. To catch us in-action with those thoughts will help, you can, you can notice, then move on.

The "Being" of life
The "Doing" of life

Your life job is your own happiness, it's your purpose for you. Remember happiness is a state of mind, it has nothing to do with achievement, wealth, family, career. ....

Let life unfold, than trying to control all aspects of it.

To be
To be you (if you dare to )

kayoshin · 36-40, M

@SoFine It was not something that outlook helped with at the time. I was trying to write something that would be on my father's tombstone so the context was unavoidable. Thank you for the input it's an interesting take on life.