A great book once told me that you don't have to know what you are. You only have to be what you are.
All you can do is decide. Choose, and act.
You don't have to know anything, or know the answer.
You don't have to conform, or be normal.
You don't have to understand, or comprehend.
You don't have to be fixed, or complete.
In 70 years, I'll be dead. Or worse. Odds are many of the people reading this will be too. Over the next 70 years I will interact will literally 1000s of people. In 200 years time, all I'll be is a name in a book. I wont have a legacy. I wont change the world.
And I dont care. I wont be there to regret anything.
When I die, I wont be there. The last neurons will fire in my brain and millions of cells will die and decay. And that will be the end of Adam James Hyde, borm Friday 13th October, 1989, to Debra and Graham Hyde. There will be no heaven. Or afterlife. Or a soul.
Gone.
And nothing will matter to me anymore.
And I dont care.
The depressing truth is that there is no point of life. At the end, there is nothing waiting. No prize or ending ceremony. One instant you'll be there. The next will be oblivion. A lack.
And I dont care.
An end. A termination. Blackness.
So now I have a choice. I can either mope around feeling sorry for myself, simply filling time before that end, and once I reach it, I can be happy I'm there. Or I can just be happy. So when I hit the end I can think "Yeah. It was worth it, and I would do it all again given the chance"
I can choose, and I can act.
When I die, I want to be there. A smile on my face. Peace in my heart. Knowing that I loved every single instant. Knowing that it was worth it.
And if I could do it all over again, I wouldn't change a single, damn, thing.
There is always a choice. Make yours.
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Afterword.
Upon review I can discovered this to be the most optimistically depressing thing I have ever written.
I would also like to point out that my views on death, particularly on a soul and afterlife, are my own opinion. Please dont flame me because you believe differently, and while I encourage discussion in the comments and other LJs, I would ask we keep this civilised and controlled, in order to prevent past mistakes from reoccuring.
Finally, while the post was originally intended to be a reply to Carl's recent post, I found that after the 2nd sentence it no longer truely became relevant, and it has become simply a post on my beliefs, rather than a reply. As such, if you would like to take away parts of it for yourself, then go right ahead. However, if you believe I have said something in regards to you that you disagree with, there is quite a high chance that I did not have you in mind upon writing, so please do not automatically take offense.
That's about all I have to say. Goodnight if you're still awake (sleep, damnit!) and Good Morning if you see this in the morning.
My Mood: 
mellow