Terminally born

Odd title? Yes, but it is a new term I'm coining. Everyone is terminally born and there is no cure. Everyone is terminal; it's just a matter of how close you are to that end that differs.

Saying someone is terminally ill seems a little off to me. What are you really saying? You're saying that the illness the person has is going to end their life sooner than expected. Really though, none of us know when we are going to die, whether currently sick or not. Perfectly healthy people die all the time, at what we consider an early age. If you are not terminally ill, are you terminally healthy? It is an accurate statement after all.

Something people need to understand better is that life is about death. It's not a matter of if, but when it will come. You have to make the most of what you have been blessed with and try to live as if there is no tomorrow. It's been said that we start dying the minute we are born. Although, most people don't like to think about things in such morbid ways, it is true.

I've always said, "the two absolutes of life are birth and death, everything else is an outcome of you decisions." Do things happen outside of your control? Of course they do, but how you respond/react to those things is your choice. You choose to be mad. You choose to ignore. You choose to help another. You choose to live.

People try to prolong their lives, I think, out of a fear of death. Why fear it? Because it is the great unknown? It is the final frontier? Regardless of what you believe in, it will happen. Everyone has their beliefs about what happens afterwards, but the truth is that we just don't know.

We're all terminal; just some of us accept it better than others. I was terminally born and I’m going to make the most of the time I have left. How about you?