Embracing Life and Death: A Journey on the Same Pole

Everything in our reality exists along a spectrum, or pole, where opposites are just varying degrees of the same thing. From an early age, we’re often reminded by those older than us to enjoy our youth because one day, we won’t have it anymore. We begin to associate youth with life itself, believing that to truly live, we must seize every moment. Over time, this idea can grow into an obsession with prolonging our lives.

But life doesn’t belong to any single person; it’s a shared experience, a collective energy that flows freely and eternally—like a river. I’ve often pondered the meaning of life and concluded that to truly live, we must also explore the opposite side of life’s pole: the concept of death.

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