The Big Nap

I often wonder a lot about life and death and everything in between. But mostly where we
end up after the “big nap,” I personally suppose that we will find our way into reincarnation, or if
not that, to the land of milk and honey… or heaven. (Whatever you want to call it). We will end
up someplace, somewhere in another realm.
One day, we will die. Yes, I know this may come to some people as a shocker, but I am
just laying out the simple facts. But will our death ever mean something to anyone? Have we
ever thought about how to live life to the fullest so that when our names show up on the
obituaries, people will mourn for a few minutes since we helped out that person?
I just want to convey the importance of living a happy, extraordinary and exciting life,
because before you know it, everything will be gone, and life as you know it changes right
before our eyes. So what I am trying to get out is that we really don’t understand how good we
have it, until it’s gone. Until just recently I realized how significant my dog was to me, until I
lost her. She was my everything, my friend, and my soul. We were one of the same, even though
we couldn’t communicate, words that never needed to be spoken, because there was this
supernatural connection that even I couldn’t explain
On Sunday, January 13th 2013, I lost my best friend. I felt the floor beneath me melt when
I found the limp body of my dog. I couldn’t do anything but cry, what else was I supposed to do?
And come to think of it, I have never cried the way I did, not even when my grandfather died.
However the difference there is that I was never closed to him, I had only vague childhood
recollections of him, but when I think of the memories that I shared with that dog, I still tear up.
Even though it hasn’t been that long since her death, I realized something… she was the
best thing that has ever been. It was about the day after, in the middle of mourning, I had this
universe expansion of all things, I had an epiphany, “cherish every moment like it’s your last.”
Even the cliché idea seemed to bring peace and assurance to me when I was most vulnerable.
Since then, I have changed my views that I should take life and live to the best of my
abilities, accomplish what I thought was impossible. Even the childish things in life are
something to cherish, in my views I see that having a child-like mentality at times, eases the
tensions when trying too hard whilst acting like an adult. Just stop and take a moment to question
the little things and embrace the world around you, the magic surrounds us everywhere, we can
see it, but it’s there… there is a reason why things seem beautiful, we as humans just have to
offer the explanation as to why we are so attracted to the little things in life.