'life' and death

Here's a thought.
Essentially, we're all living to die.
The time we have is only what we make of it. Everyday we stress and complain about life, but when life gives us the chance to really live, live past death, why is it, that all we can do is see the negative in death?

After my visit to Mexico I've adopted a new belief system of life and death. Their culture embraces death, because everyday we walk with death and go about our lives around death. Some people speed death up with constants like drugs, alcohol and other abuse. Some try to slow it down as much as possible trying to live forever. Death is undeniable, here in America we avoid death in every way possible, it's never accepted and always rejected.

I believe the Higher Power has plans for everyone, and that includes death sometimes and eventually always. While the world tries to find the cures for the endless diseases and cancers, while hospitals try to evaluate and assess the problems of the growing epidemics, I believe that sometimes, some things aren't meant to be cured. Death isn't the bad guy, if anything it frees us all of our miseries and unhappiness in this world before eternity.

Not many people can see or understand this, you might think differently when you're in the midst of losing someone, but I've lost someone, and if you haven't already, you will.
Pain will overtake your whole being, but you can't let that stop you, and if anything, you should be thankful. So until that time, we should all try to live out our lives in this world with as much love and compassion as possible, because when your time comes, it comes fast, and all the drugs in the world can't stop the process of when it's your turn to say goodbye no matter who you are or how much you aren't ready to leave.

Life is like a maze, you can run around and try to hide but in the end there's only one exit...