260722 What I learned in my studies this morning 6

Today's Meditation(s):

Meditations, 12.35 (Hicks and Hicks)

Death holds no terrors for one like this? I should think not.

Love fate.

Do good; don't worry about quantity.

Stop caring whether my time left is long or short.

Yeah,that last one seems different.

But how?

Emotionally.

Yeah. And?

But like I said, it feels different.

What's that to following reason and Nature?

I hsve things I want to do. Plans I want to fulfill. People I want to be here for and with. I have more good things to do. More to experience. More to make. More to give. 

People who would be sad without me.

People who would be hurt without me.

People who would be harmed without me.

And they will continue without you as you've continued without your son, your father, and your mother.

And before that, when you lost A and B?

And when you've lost people from your life even without death?

The world goes on. All those things still happen — will still happen — when you're gone. The only difference is you're not there.

But they are strong. And you've done all you can. And they will survive.

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Note: please do not misinterpret this. It is not a plea for help. It's not a thinly veiled suicide note. Nothing like that.

It's a meditation . . . see the first line of every post on this blog. It's a pondering upon my prompt for the day.

Waterfield remarks in a note on 12.32, "Marcus seems to be preparing himself for death in this and the following entries, culminating in the very last entry of the book."

All of the final few entries have our proper attitude toward death as a central theme and the quote for today is the penultimate entry in the Meditations, 12.35.

I'll cover 12.36 tomorrow.