Final Destination

I want to kiss life right on the lips, in all its fullness:

The two hour traffic to Manila everyday. The heartaches. The breakfast that is never on the table. The distance between my family and me. The closeness between my sister and me. The mid-term exams.

I am actually happy.

Ironically, the movie “final destination” was playing on my bus ride to school today. It’s morbid and horrific and about death but it never occurred to me as sad, untill today.

These kids mess up the order of death but they can’t quite escape it, because as we know, death is not meant to be escaped in this life. They do everything just to run away from death but they never think about the fact that their messing up the order of their life - their running away from life. What about just.. living.

I guess, it is true.. that the moments we are most alive in, are the moments we are most aware of death. No wonder the bible tells us to die to ourselves everyday, because only then are we trully alive

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