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| art by ichigokonkon |
“Memento
Mori” is Latin for “remember of death”. We will not live on this earth forever.
A sad truth, but one necessary to remember in order to savor the life.
A
friend told me once that the time passes inevitably and at the same rate
regardless of what we fill it with. One can be active, work, produce, create,
achieve something, and a day will pass away. Or one can sit, gaze out of the
window and do nothing for twelve hours, and the same day will inevitably pass
away and vanish. She meant it as a guide
for choosing to live an active life. But this principle is even more important
to remember for living a happy life: you can spend 12 hours being unhappy, and
the day will pass, or you can choose to be happy, and the same day will pass.
As days pass one after another, so do our lives.
Paraphrasing Ostrovskiy in “How The Steel Was Tempered”, our life is given to
us once only. We better live it so that when we look back on it, we do not
regret the years that went by while we were feeling angry, unsatisfied, stressed
and depressed. To be happy is to feel content with the live already behind us, looking
forward to the good things ahead of us, and being calm about its inevitable ending.
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| art by Raingarden |
We
better enjoy our life and be happy while it happens.
Memento
Mori.
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