The Closer to Death I am the More Alive I Become
When you wake you won’t know its your day to die.
One winter while surfing large epic waves on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii I was pitched to the bottom of the reef from a top a 25’+ wave. Rag-dolled and tangled I was held under until the force pressed all the breath out of me. Literally stroking for my life, I saw only black as I tried to surface, I had nothing left in that fleeting moment. The thought, “so today is my day to die”, surfaced and I began to give myself over to death. Miraculously, at that instant I saw a glimmer of sunlight from the surface; I knew I must be close to the top. I reached inside again, this time deeper, more intensely and somehow found more life in me to propelled myself to the surface and win my life’s greatest reward – a breath of air.
Man’s most primal instinct is survival. When confronted with death he finds herculean strength to keep going. A strength that, only in that moment, do we realize is with us at all times. I have learned, from that experience, and several other, although not so final experiences that the closer to death I was the more alive I became. I learned what “ALIVE” really meant and that I was much stronger than I ever imagined. I learned I have the fire power within me to accomplish anything.
I eluded my final destination that day, luckily for me the experience was a great lesson. I learned that I was capable of so much more and that its not the destination that enriches us, its THE JOURNEY.
Life is a journey. Through its trials, tribulations and near death experiences we grow, become more, we learn to control of our environment and hopefully to thrive. Our character is not defined by what we succeed at, rather it is the challenge, the journey to succeed that chisels our being. If we live every day like its our last, or in my case last moment, we can become more than we ever dreamed possible.
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