THE EXISTENTIAL PANIC

Waking up to death is something most fear, the idea of losing a loved or ceasing to exist in this reality is anguishing to the fragile mind. Do we know when we transcend to the numinous? And if so what happens to the soul when one ceases to exist? Entropy is a reality but instead of thinking about the impermanence of life we should rage against the dying of the light.

In as much as our very existence is a conundrum with questions arising such as Where did we come from?Why are we here? and Where are we headed to? We also wonder about the ideology wrapped around life it begins from a single-celled organisms which clump together into multi cellular organisms eventually becoming the body and these bodies have minds which become self perceiving and self-aware.

In order to accept death we must live life to the point of tears for we live in a beautiful world. Fall in love, paint the walls, travel the -verse, learn new words, romanticize the moment, live in the now. Seldom do we live life when were living, we instead think of the fact that we came from the ground so shall we return and become food for worms. Its worth more to live in the moment than to regret that you didn’t live at all for death as well as the future do not exist until there time comes.

Poem and Photography by
~Trish