A Pause

A Pause

This somewhat profound thought has most likely been pondered by many a brain before mine, but since it just now popped into my head, YOU are the lucky souls who get to follow where this leads.

So, let’s think about it, shall we ??

When we are born, there is that ever so slight pause before a big ol’ gulp of fresh air is suddenly and wonderfully inhaled and !! WELCOME !!!  Baby !!

You’re thrilled !

I’m thrilled !

We all send congrats and happy thoughts and joy to this new human being for it is a miraculous moment indeed !! Baby is crying, adults are celebrating and such is the beginning of life.

YaY

But Death ?

No one really likes to talk or deal with that guy until we have no choice and even though it’s inevitable we often avoid the subject until well, it’s inevitable

but death, at least the way I prefer to view it, is the subtle opposite, where it’s the one who’s leaving that is experiencing the joy, while the ones left behind are crying

& think about it. There’s a pause before birth. There’s a pause before death. There are tears and joy for birth. There are tears and joy for death

& hmmmm.

Once upon a long time ago, while randomly googling, I stumbled upon a strange tribal ritual that sticks with me until today,

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Contrary to the usual norm of life, however, one gypsy tribe from Rajasthan actually rejoice and revel in deaths in their family counting them as one of the happiest events in their lives while treating births as occasions of great grief.

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How odd that they flipped it. Sadness at birth ? Joy at death ?? That’s just weird.

& maybe it because I’ve been hanging around hospitals all Summer but, truth be told, I’m not at all frightened of the pause that awaits somewhere in my future because I’m realizing the people who greet my arrival will be just as thrilled as those who joined the festivities of my birth

& if that ain’t every kind of wonderful ??!!??

My point ??

Be thankful for your here and now. Welcome those babies and learn those lessons and do the right thing and always be kind and trust your instincts and …

& when it’s time to say goodbye and as you say your hellos be extremely grateful for the opportunity to have experienced it at all and acknowledge the glorious brevity of the pause, my friends, for a more sacred moment is near impossible to find. From there to here. From here to there.

Now, that’s profound.

My Friend