Jason Versey's Blog - Posts Tagged "death"

Death, as we have come to know it, is for those that have gone before us. Empty and as cold as the hole they leave behind, one thing is harrowingly true…Life is for the living. What remains are memories wrapped in a legacy of tender emotions and thought. It’s a final endowment, a beautiful gift. So is it too much for us to honor the dearly departed with our lives? Can we do it without unabated regret, without fear, without immobilizing woe? Can we not memorialize a life no longer with us with a deep appreciation of life itself and live perhaps how they would want us to live or how they would live…if they could? Can we breathe this extraordinary breath of life and drink from its fountain of joy, laughter, love and inexhaustible promise with gratitude…for yet another day? The greatest honor we can give to those who have passed on is to live “ever present” experiencing all of life good and bad…among the living. Do we not owe a debt of appreciation for the gift of a legacy? Can we live among the living with courage gifting the here and now with what the foregone have given us? Is that not, at a minimum, what we want for our loved ones when we eventually leave this world? ~Jason Versey