Is It Really The End?

                                                                    Death is not the end
                                                             Death can never be the end.

Death is the road.
Life is the traveler.
The Soul is the Guide

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Our mind thinks of death.
Our heart thinks of lifeOur soul thinks of Immortality.

    

                                                                                                                                 

- By: Sri Chinmoy            

  

The first thing that popped up in my mind when I started reading was a picture of the sky breaking apart by some kind of light. That’s the image I always get when I think about death. I basically think of heaven. In the second stanza it talks about how death is the road, life is the traveler, and soul is the guide. I think what that means is death is the path you have to take while you’re alive. Your soul guides you through the path so it can move on. In the third stanza it talks about what our mind thinks and what our heart thinks. What I think is that what our mind thinks is fact and the thing our heart thinks is hope.

            I think this poem is about how you have to go down a dangerous path of death and you’re the traveler. You’re seeking for life down that path and your soul is helping you. There’s a constant struggle between death and life always. You just can’t avoid it. Even though you know death will always come at last but you’re hoping that you’ll live forever. What you don’t notice is your soul thinks about living forever but you don’t notice that because you’re worried about dying.

                                                   

It Not That Funny, Actually Pretty Serious

SPOILER ALERT!

In the book It’s Kind Of A Funny Story by Ned Vizzini, Craig Gilner gets to go to the best school in Manhattan’s Executive Pre- Professional. He passes the test that he had been studying for his entire 8^th grade year by getting all the questions right. If you think that’s it then wait until you hear this. Craig starts to fall behind everyone else in his class. He gets piles of weeks of homework just to get back on track.

Then the pressure and depression start. First as soon as he notices he wants to suicide he gets medicine to counter act his depression called Zoloft. But as soon as he starts to feel better after a few weeks and feels like he can take on the world he stops taking the Zoloft. WELL THAT WAS A DUMB KNUCKLE HEADED MOVE HE DID THERE! He ends up in a mental hospital. When he starts noticing that all the people in there are WAY screwed up then him and starts noticing that the one thing that makes him feel better is making brain maps he starts to handle his depression. Then he transfers to an art school.

Craig just wanted to go to the best school he knew about. He wanted to lead a good life, have a happily family, a nice car, and a nice house. What he didn’t notice is that if he probably did get all that he would end up at a mental hospital, and this time for a VERY LONG TIME. I guess it’s kind of like a life lesson here, make your career something you love to do so you won’t have to feel all of the pressure that Craig did, and you’ll probably won’t start thinking about suicide or even commit it. WE WOULDN”T WANT THAT!!!!! J