I've heard many people say that the thing that they are most afraid of is death. For me however, it couldn't be farther from the truth. I've never been afraid of death or dying, it's something I've always realized I have absolutely no control over and therefore is not something I should waste the time I do have worrying about. I have always said that if anything were to happen to me, it must have been my time.

I think that most people are afraid to die because they fear it will be painful, that they will have no control over what happens in that final moment. But what I think is the most terrifying part about death has nothing to do with dying. Everybody dies. In my opinion, the worst part about our eventual non-existence has nothing to do with ourselves but with those who we have left behind. Death is harder on the living than on the deceased.The grieving process is never an easy one especially when you lose a very close loved one. But once a person has passed, it takes a much harder toll on friends and family than it does on the deceased.

I don't condone going out of the way to put myself in situations that could end up being fatal but at the same time I have never hindered myself from pursing something because I was afraid that there was a .0002% chance that I could die from it.

Why fear death when it is inevitably the fate of us all anyway? Why not embrace the life that we have and acknowledge that any moment could be our last? I believe that each day you find a piece of yourself and that the day that you die is the day that all of your pieces have finally come together. Maybe that's why some of us only live for a day and others for one hundred years. It could be possible that some of us are just meant to have shorter journeys than others. Each day is a gift and we should treat it as such. We are lucky to be here, at any moment, it could be taken away.

The one thing that I do know is that I am not afraid to die. I have my own beliefs about what happens to us after our lives end and I respect the opinion that others have on the subject. No matter what is or isn't on the other side doesn't matter. What does matter is what you accomplished in the time you were fortunate enough to have on this Earth.

At the end of the day, the most important thing to remember is that life happens, we could be gone in the very next second. But what we can guarantee is that at some point, we gone. So take each day you have and make it the best day you've ever had.