02/08/2024
To a Friend
It is a struggle to be born and a struggle to die. We don't want to leave the womb, we don't want to leave the world. We are afraid to give up what we have in the womb for a world we know nothing about. We are afraid to give up what we have in this world for a new world we know nothing about. But this world is so much better than the womb, the next world will be so much better than this one. Fear not, for energy can never be created nor destroyed, only transformed into another kind of energy. We were alive before our conception and birth and we will be alive after our death. No beginning, no end. Only Limitless Love into Eternity. All is well.
(Update 2024: I don’t remember what caused me to write this or even who I wrote it for. But I have reason this week to think about this again. I ran the “energy” part by a science teacher once and she assured me those few words are true. But for almost ten years, I have been bothered by “energy cannot be created” when I consider newborn babies. Don’t we create them? Are they not new energy? Finally, it came to me this week that a baby is simply the transformation of the energies of two people, people whose existence came about in the same way. As I grow old, I am impressed not with how much I know and understand, but by how little. Life has always been and will always be a mystery. The best one ever.)
©2015 Jim Hagarty
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