This is the movie you’ve been wanting to see.
The new car you finally buy after driving the old one 250,000 miles
The great job with super pay and benefits
The Saucony running shoes you’ve been needing for months
The two bedroom house with a garage and yard that’s not too big or small
This is death staring you in the face. It’s all yours soon. Reality.
Time to pay the ferryman…the piper…money where your mouth is
You’ve looked at it your whole life
Dreamed about it
Contemplated this way, then that way.
fantasized on what it will be like
Listened and read so many theories you don’t know what to believe
Convinced yourself of the craziest beliefs
and then turned your head, looked the other way..cause there’s no solid ground
Argued with pounding fists..IT MUST BE LIKE THIS..CAN’T YOU SEE..it’s in the damn BOOK…you know..THE BOOK!
Then next month argued the opposite
Heaven, hell, nirvana, souls that live eternally, unlimited virgins,
Angels, demons, saints, the bible
GOD – check the box – Yes or No
Grandma, grandpa and my old dog Rover are waiting.
Reincarnation
Empty void of nothingness
Like snuffing out a candle
Time to get real. Time to slip on the new Sauconys
and open the door to your new house
This is it.
No more guessing
Time to stop reading and listening to B.S.
and get real
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It sounds like you’ve devoted as many fruitless hours to this riddle as I have. What did you come up with for the answer (du jour)?
very nice.
All that desire that we use to blind ourselves,
Trying to escape that realization.
Trying to avoid staring death in the eyes;
spinning around in circles endlessly;
constantly trying to run away from the inescapable.
I’ve accepted that we can only really know what’s happening in the moment. Anything beyond our frame of reference in time – beyond our lives – is unknowable. The best assessment is in pure physical terms. Once your neurons stop firing, all of those little branches that make up everything you think you are ceases to be. Also, I have no clue what Sauconys are, and my car has 320,000 miles on it and will have many more before I give in and buy a replacement. I’m a stubborn bastard.