I was going through my daily ritual of websites and perusing the one dealing with San Antonio. Over on the right it has a feature called “Notable Deaths”. That is the local term for “obituary”. What struck me first was that I had never heard of anybody on the list. When it listed what they had done to be notable I must confess that I did not even know that those things needed to be done. Grab for whatever fame you can find.
The second thing that jumped out at me that three of the four who made the fold were younger than I am. Maybe I should say, not as old.
I have my problems. We all do. At the same time I am still cooking on most of my burners. And as I tell people when they get squeamish about the topic of death, “I am ready to go.”
Being ready to go means everything from having clean underwear to having my sins forgiven by the grace of God. There is a lot in between. I am sure that I missed a few spots on the glasses. Put it in my obituary.
homo unius libri
It seems to unnerve medical folks when I refuse to worry about whether I live or die. I tell them that I prefer not to leave this life any sooner than necessary, but that if today's the day, so be it, I know where I'm going. I don't think it's just that so many are unsaved, I think it's also because they realize that they're ALMOST irrelevant to folks like me.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't need them how can they be important? And looking at death as a promotion is frightening to many people.
DeleteGrace and peace.
Reminds me of that saying that goes, "When I die, I want someone to ask, "Why?"".
ReplyDeleteThat is better than "Why not?" In my case it will be because I am old. In your case it will be because you told the wrong person about ice cream on the quad.
DeleteGrace and peace.