"Chance is the pseudonym God uses when he doesn't want to sign his name." ~ Anatole France
Someone once said that a brush with death brings out the better person in us. The transcendental and goal-oriented self. A brush with death is supposed to refine our awareness on how fragile life is.
Yet, I know someone who survived a plane crash. Looking at the chances of surviving a plane crash in the sixties (19%), you’d think that he had taken life by the horns, gotten himself a day-job or something, AT LEAST just to keep his boat afloat.
He did not.
He’s actually right where he was forty years ago; beside a crashed life with too many chances missed, and amendments too late. I feel so sorry for him that I can’t help but wonder if it should’ve been someone else...
Did it make a difference?
Would we have made a difference if we were in his shoes? Would it have made a difference if we survived plane crashes every day?
Or do we just get used to the fact and begin to take ourselves, our lives, for granted as soon as forgetfulness erodes our bruises?
5 afterthinkers:
no, brushing with death, doesn't make us more apprecitive of life and grap it with its horn, it's hard at the beginning and then things take its normality. or is it me who lost all senses !!!
Hi.
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This is a problem for me, though, because I currently don't want to have external things (like a good blog) calling my attention when I want to focus on more internal things.
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Hmm, it all boils down to one thing: a brush with death or no, it will always depend on how we consider our lives. It's up to us if we let the experience change us or not.
I've seen someone on the Oprah Show. He survived a plane crash although got badly burned on some parts of his body. But as the man said it was just a coincidence, Oprah asked if he believed in God's will and power.He shook his head and retorted and shrugged innocently, 'It was a sheer luck'. So he meant God wasn't involved in his being safe and sound to date? Ungrateful agnostic.
Playing with death is always eerie yet fun.I think I would've made differences if I were in that man's shoe. I would emit less carbon by not going out by motorbike so often, generate less plastic trash that harms the environment, haha....
will, i didn't survive a plane crash but a car crash,
if there is anything i learned it's how life can end in a nano-second.
it's a scary thing, when i look back at it, but hey I'm here ^.^
i learned to appreciate life more, enjoy coffee more then i did before, hanging out with close friends, and trying everything at least once.
the thing now is I'm not really scared of dieing O.o
a brush of death was something that made me a bit stronger in a way.
but on the other hand I have seen people suffer from it.
I'm glad i'm still alive, seat belt do help ;)
cheers
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