Break the Illusion Blog by Davey Wavey

The final chapter of Tuesdays with Morrie was very, very heavy.

As Mitch was saying goodbye to Morrie for the very last time, I closed my eyes. In my mind, I saw myself saying goodbye to the people that I love. For the first time, I accepted the presence of death and its inevitability in my own life and the lives of those I love. There will come a time when Nick and I will say a final farewell. With my eyes shut, I could experience my mother’s death. I experienced my own death. I accepted it. I cried until tears streamed down my cheeks. The emotions that I observed in myself were overwhelming.

Today, I learned to live.

The transition from life to death–from physical to spiritual–is often painful. But I know that relationships don’t die when our bodies die. The universe is eternal; you are the universe; therefore, you are eternal. Your body is not eternal, and so we must accept death as a transition to something different and beautiful.

Morrie talks about the story of a wave, splashing around at sea in the wind. As the wave nears land, it sees the waves in front of it crashing into the shore and vanishing. The wave becomes scared as it realizes that it is approaching the shore. A second wave notices the first wave’s concern, and says, “you don’t understand. You’re not a wave, you’re part of the ocean.”

Indeed the shore is coming. It is not a tragedy, but rather a beautiful gift. And when you accept this, you live. You live with love, and never take a moment, a thing, or a person for granted.