Memento Mori
May 28, 2010
Vanitas Still Life with a Tulip, Skull and Hour-Glass by Phillipe de Champaigne
Memento Mori is a Latin phrase which translates to "Remember You Must Die".
Too many people fear Death. They fear it because it is Unknown.
But Death places everything in perspective.
If you knew Death would come for you the next month, the next week or the next day... would you still do the things you're doing? Would you be working just for the sake of working? Would you be idling your time away? Would you forsake your family for a night of drunken pleasure? Would you partake in office gossip? Would you be bothered by what people gossip about you?
Would you Dance with every waking moment you have left? Would you Love with everything you have left? Would you seek to Accomplish everything you've always wanted to do before your time expires?
This Answer, only You know.
When you are Young, you think you have all the Time in the World. You think you will live Forever.
But Time is a stealthy thief that will rob you of your Lifeforce, bit by bit, every moment, every second.
Apathy will assimilate you into the Living Dead that is characteristic of Modern Society.
Only when you Acknowledge the ever-present possibility of Death, can you begin to Live with everything you've got.
Why sweat the small stuff?
Remember your Mortality.
Remember you must Die.
And then you will wake up into your New Life.
Memento Mori.
