Serenest in death

 I was writing another article until the news of the death of Chadwick BOSEMAN got me. The shared post by his family:

according to twither is the most liked post of all the time. I guess, twither needs to add more ways of expressions about a post, most people in this case would have wanted to put a crying or a broken heart but liking was the only option available.

 The question begging this article is: How can such a young man could be so serene in front of eminent death? I have heard different stories about certain  death:

 One from Earl nightingale in his radio podcast titled " the essence of success"; a couple was on a boat that was sinking so they hug each other and while smiling they were taken away by the waves.

 Another story comes from an Italian tv show " Le Iene" Nadia Toffa,  the tv show journalist full of positive contagious energy battled for a long time with cancer. While recovering she even came back to keep doing her job. She was smiling brightly in front of us while death was slicing her. After a while she went back to the Hospital, where death had the best of her.

 An old judge was retired from the supreme court, and the president went to visit him, they found him reading Plato, they asked him why was he reading at this time of his life? his response was " To improve my mind"; the next day the judge was dead.

 A old paint was interviewed at the highest point of his career.... "I'm still making progress" the next day he died.

Another interview goes like this: "What would you do if you happens to know that you will die tomorrow? He responded: " I'll keep owning my garden" the next day he was dead.

 An old man was planting a tree in his yard, and his grand son asked him, " Why do you plant a tree, when you won't live to watch it grow? And the old man calming  went on his planting and responds: I believe, you have to plan to die tomorrow or to live forever, and I don't plan to die tomorrow.

 Why all these stories to talk about Chadwick Boseman? Simply because he is exactly the extension of those great men. 

The question, " how a man keeps moving on knowing that he will die very soon?

 The first element of answer comes from George Santayana: "There’s no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval".  The sum of this interval is what our life to people will be. It is the memory we leave behind. 

But while we are living, the present moment is all we got. Unfortunately, we tend to bring misery upon ourselves by worrying about the future and reliving in our minds the mistakes of the pass. One of the greatest trick in life is to learn to enjoy the present. Because it is the only time that we have. In nowadays society we can easily say that distance has been conquered but time is the only thing that can't be shortened, extended, accumulated or retarded is the one thing  that is completely beyond man control. Being bored or killing time mean only throwing parts of our life away or even killing part of our life.

All we can never have is today. Yesterday is gone forever and tomorrow really never comes. If today is hard to live and we are waiting for another day to happiness, we just to remember that tomorrow is made up as today the only variable is us and how we apprehend it. It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy of what we have that makes happiness.

 "Is the voyage and the adventures along the way that count and not the arrival itself", I've heard somewhere. The purpose is not the destination but the reason of the trip. That we  live is not nearly important that the manner in which we live.

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we find it not, " wrote Ralph Emerson. Whatever we are looking for must be find first inside because whatever we do outwardly is only the reflection of the inner man.

 “Look well to this one day, for it and it alone is life. In the brief course of this day lie all the verities and realities of your existence; the pride of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty. yesterday is only a dream, and tomorrow is but a vision. Yet each day, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow, a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.”  Sanskrit

 "We look backward too much, we look forward too much as we miss the passing moment. in our regret and apprehension, we miss the only eternity that man can be absolutely sure, the eternal present, for it is always now", wrote William Lyon Phelps.

"Write in your heart that every day is the best day of the year", wrote Emerson. No man is earned everything rightly until he knows that everyday is doomsday. Today is a king in disguise.

 Indeed, everyday was doomsday for Chadwick not by choice but because of a disease and he found the cure by enjoying the interval, doing all he can. Giving praises to people like Denzel Washington who have allowed him to become and being in a constant state of gratefulness. 

 Kobe Bryant, also died this year alongside with his daughter. They were in perfect health. If we remember him today is not because what he planned to do tomorrow but he did right now in the time he had. So, let's all remember that every day is doomsday and let us not be deceived, and let's unmask the king as he passes. Today is the only piece of the mosaic of our life that we hold in our hands. Today is life itself.  What would you do with yours? Get yourself a wonderful copy of self track improvement in the MAMBA SPIRIT way)

We can only die, through living, and as strange as it could sound, "we can't get out of life alive" so let drain life out life after all either way we must live. We can live by our own goal or get it imposed on us.

The clock is always ticking, time passes whether it rains, it sunny, or it is snowing. Whether you are reading a book, watching a movie, eating something or even sleeping, times passes. Even now that I’m writing, my yellow clock of the living room is ticking. Time does not care about us but we have and must care about it. Today’s time would never come back to you. It exists only once. Even if it does come back, something that  is impossible, but if it does, you may not be here that is sure.

“You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.” Said Chadwick Boseman