Humility

I saw something today that I would not wish upon my worst enemies. I saw humanity at its core. There was nothing that could have been done. Nothing in the world could have changed it.
Our bodies are extremely fragile, and it all ends as quickly as it starts.

The Rabbi said it was meant to be. Our lives are pre-ordained, he said. It is what it is. Fate.

He went on to say that we come in to this world with our hands closed, and leave this world with our hands open. In the beginning we are selfish, and want for ourselves, at the end we take nothing except for who we were.

There was nothing to do. I stood at the edge watching as her husband shoveled dirt. It was an unbearable site, but it had to be done. And, he had to do it. To be in that position is absolutely unthinkable, the absolute misery. But it had to be done. It was very important.

That's it. That was the end. There was nothing that anyone could have done. How can our lives be so fragile, and we spend them so recklessly. The Rabbi said that what we take from this world is who we were, what we accomplished, our respect, our dignity, humility.

Time goes by so quickly. It rushes by, going quicker and quicker. I feel it now; every day time goes faster and faster. Hours roll into days, weeks, months, years. Years go by as fast as a minutes. Ideas, moments, events, opportunities, gone as quickly as they appear. Some are forgotten and lost, others remain as a memory, a feeling, wrapping themselves around us, forming who we are, what we shell take.

I need to take life more seriously, or perhaps, the goal is to take it less seriously. Be a person said the Rabbi, that's it.