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- From: das@media.mit.edu (David Sheppard)
- Subject: Re: Held at gunpoint!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.172954.4841@news.media.mit.edu>
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- Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
- References: <1ds9g2INNd71@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:29:54 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <1ds9g2INNd71@agate.berkeley.edu> andrewc@garnet.berkeley.edu (Andrew Chen) writes:
- > [story of armed robbery deleted...]
- > But what I have been consumed about is the thought of death. [...]
- > Am I supposed to take this well and go on with my life as if nothing ever
- > happened?
- >
- There's no "supposed to" here, or anywhere else. This intense event
- *DID* happen. You will never be _exactly_ the same*1; you will likely
- be better. How? Something allowed this event to happen, and that
- same Something has a message to give to you. Hear it and learn; your
- life will be larger and richer for it. Where are your feet?
- This is your path.
-
- What is the message? I don't know. I could guess at what it _might_
- be for _me_ in a similar situation: "Life is *precious*, fragile,
- always changing. Enjoy it in the present, for life is also capricious
- and unpredictable, for better and for worse. Pay close attention;
- don't put off until tomorrow expressing the love you feel, for self
- or for others."
-
- My advice: don't _fight_ your flashbacks, dreams and visions.
- Ask them, ask your deeper and higher self what you need to learn
- from this experience. Learn it. Then you will be free of your
- present anxiety.
-
- --das dave
-
- ----------
- *1: Of course, this is true of *any* event, including something as
- seemingly trivial as tying your shoes... laugh. But what if instead
- of being held up you tripped on an untied lace descending the garage
- stairs and paralyzed yourself with a spinal injury? Everything
-