I woke up this morning to the phone beeping. At 7:30am, I don't get text messages very often, so I got up to check and make sure everything was ok. "Are you awake? hopefully far away from the water!!". It was from my sister in San Fran. Quickly I ran to the window and looked out at the bay bellow. Nothing unusual. My next reaction was to check weather.com. Nothing out of the unusual until Chris pointed out on the webpage the article discussing the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan. Within minutes of waking up, I was quickly being shown the horrible devestation that nature could cause.
It humbles you. At any moment a natural disaster could hit and your whole life could change.
It makes me think about the dreams I have of dealth. I've had this dream a few times now, most recentely the first night my mom came to visit me. I'm in an elevator with a random aquintance and the elevator stops working and begins dropping uncontrollably. The other person in my dream then says "Oooooh no!!!" in a horribly terrified voice. My death in the dream is that moment everything turns black and I got out of consciousness only to wake up from my dream.
I feel like I think about death more than the average person. I'm horrified at the idea of dying. I know its common for people to say that they wouldn't want to live till they were 100...that they wouldn't enjoy their life anymore. I don't feel that way. I don't think I would have a problem with living forever as long as those I loved could as well. I would love to be alive and witness all the changes that this world goes through. What things we discover and come up with.
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