I consider myself to be rather young in age (will be 34 next month). After reading about all of these people dying from freak accident (Natasha Richardson), disease (Farrah Fawcett), co-dependancy (Jacko) and now what appears to be murder-suicide (McNair). It makes me wonder if life is too precious and we are too fragile as human beings.
I remember when I was little I saw Danny Kaye appear on an episode of The Cosby Show and then shortly after drop dead. Same thing with Andy Gibb appearing on Punky Brewster and then ODing. I thougt to myself wow death is real it is not just an old age thing. These guys were just guest stars on sitcoms and now they are dead.
So I fast forward to the present and seeing more and more of these famous people dying along with the friends and family I have lost over the years. I wonder if we were put on this earth to live life or try to avoid death. It seems like every little thing that we do actually slowly or rapidly contributes to our own death. The best tasting foods are bad for your health, working a stressful or labor intensive job can shorten your life, the people we associate ourselves with can end your life, the lack of or too much exercise we do can cut your life short too. Plus not to mention the little hobbies and activities we do can kill us prematurely. Then there are the unexplainable things like getting lung cancer without even smoking (Christopher Reeves wife) that can end us.
I know my ramble isn't really going anywhere here but I just feel that everyday we wake up our fates in life are in our own hands on how we choose to live it but how our life ends is in the hands of somebody else which just doesn't seem fair.
I remember when I was little I saw Danny Kaye appear on an episode of The Cosby Show and then shortly after drop dead. Same thing with Andy Gibb appearing on Punky Brewster and then ODing. I thougt to myself wow death is real it is not just an old age thing. These guys were just guest stars on sitcoms and now they are dead.
So I fast forward to the present and seeing more and more of these famous people dying along with the friends and family I have lost over the years. I wonder if we were put on this earth to live life or try to avoid death. It seems like every little thing that we do actually slowly or rapidly contributes to our own death. The best tasting foods are bad for your health, working a stressful or labor intensive job can shorten your life, the people we associate ourselves with can end your life, the lack of or too much exercise we do can cut your life short too. Plus not to mention the little hobbies and activities we do can kill us prematurely. Then there are the unexplainable things like getting lung cancer without even smoking (Christopher Reeves wife) that can end us.
I know my ramble isn't really going anywhere here but I just feel that everyday we wake up our fates in life are in our own hands on how we choose to live it but how our life ends is in the hands of somebody else which just doesn't seem fair.
