Death is the Ultimate Leader

Today I've attended a funeral. People who knew each other, people who didn't know each other..We've all sat there, sharing tears while mourning.

During the ceremony FORGIVENESS was claimed by all of us for the soul having decided to leave.

During the ceremony the priest reminded us the following: we were all there, left to mourn a soulless body. That the body was left to return to its mother earth while the soul would take away only the memories, the energy it has been infiltrated with during a lifetime.

Listening to the ceremony, I remembered all the times I talked with death in this lifetime. I remembered when father died and I understood the true meaning of "never".

I remembered all the patients I saw in terminal stage. All the funerals I've been to.

Death is the ultimate leader.

Waiting for us at the end of our time on Earth. The only one waiting for us. To receive us back in the hands of the Unknown.

We actually come from "death"

Before being alive WE WERE NOT.

So why are we so afraid of death?

Why the need to finger-point the irreversible?

While we refuse to think about death we also forget how important is to be alive.

While we fear death we actually remain "workers" of life and not "leaders" of our life.

Death is the ultimate leader. A silent leader, standing tall in her truth.

Reminding us what is she not: she is not LIFE. Death cannot lie to us. She is true to herself. And when she calls us, we become her.

My most precious lesson from this leader is this: she leads in a way we cannot betray her. We cannot unfollow her as we do with life. We cannot pretend to be dead.

Yet, while alive, so many of us are dissatisfied with our aliveness. So many of us pretend to live. So many of us walk our walks of life in a dishonorable manner. Cursing the day we were born.

So many of us, while given yet another priceless gift - another day of aliveness - instead of living the NEW, we live the OLD.

Death is my mentor. It reminds me of the importance of behaving according to my present nature: and my present nature is LIFE.

While I cannot lie to death, I neither will lie to life. I am grateful for every breath, as for now, I am life