Dead at 25 - Buried at 75

What a sad commentary on a life lived.  For life to end at 25 is a great loss.

So, you’ve had a few setbacks.

Maybe you’ve experienced a great loss.

Did someone hurt your feelings?

Oh, I know.  Someone said something you disagreed with and you decided to crawl in a hole and give up.

Is that it?

What a loss?

The world loses because you decided to give up and quit.  That is not the way life works.  We all make a contribution.  We all pitch in.  We pursue our dreams.  We keep at it.

In the movie Dead Poet’s Society, Robin Williams portrays a teacher of literature, and in one great scene he brings this to life.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute.  We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.  And the human race is filled with passion and medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life.  But poetry, beauty, romance - love, these are what we stay alive for. 

To quote from Whitman

“O me!  O life!  

Of the questions of these recurring;

of the endless trains of the faithless

of cities filled with the foolish;

what good amid these, O me, O life? 

Answer:  that you are here,

that life exists and identity,

that the powerful play goes on

and you may contribute a verse.” 

And then he asks this … “What will your verse be?”

Life is asking for a contribution.  You don’t have to give much; just contribute what you can. 

Maybe you make the best pecan pie in the county.  Share it.

Maybe you love gardening.  Wow, do we need that.

Is music your gift?  Sing, or play and let it out.

I’m a writer.  That is my calling and my ‘why’. 

Just don’t let your verse get lost in the disappointments of yesterday.

P Michael Biggs

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