With new experience comes new perspective. Maybe I’m a little raw, maybe my nerves are closer to the surface of my skin these days, but I’ve been noticing a great deal of idolizing of death lately, and it bothers me at a time when I think life is particularly precious.
Do you play video games where you shoot your opponents? World of Warcraft? Do you enjoy watching horror movies that involve chainsaws? Do you like to point your finger and go, “Pow”? Do you idolize gangsters, vampires, zombies, criminals or vigilantes? Do you enjoy seeing things get blown up?
If so, consider the negative energy you’re putting out in the world. When you take that stuff in, it becomes at least a small part of your reality. When you send a message that violence and death are acceptable, that becomes part of the wider world.
It’s getting so that even the military recruitment videos look like video games. They want you to think that being deployed to Afghanistan is fun. If you honestly think that, I can point you toward thousands of soldiers who have come back from wars who will tell you otherwise.
Death isn’t a game. At some point in your life it will become all too real. In the meantime, don’t waste your valuable life in celebrating it. There will be time enough for that in the next place. But I suspect the desire to focus on death will not even cross your mind at that point.
With new experience comes new perspective.
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