Usually, when someone mentions a morbid comment in the middle of a conversation, it is ignored and not taken seriously. Sometimes people might even laugh their way away from the comment in discomfort because no one likes to talk about death. For me, I find the idea of death more comforting than most. Before you think it, no I am not suicidal or have any reason to want to end my life. I am just simply more comfortable with the idea that someday I will leave this world behind than most people are.
There are plenty of benefits to getting comfortable with the idea of death. These advantages lead you to live your life in a rather "You Only Live Once" kind of way. For example, through being comfortable with the fact that life is fragile, I have another reason to never be mean to others. Granted no one should be mean to anybody else in a perfect world, but it happens naturally. Having the fragility of life in the back of my mind makes me think that if these words were my last or the last words that this person were to hear from me, would I be proud to have said them. This is how thinking morbidly can apply to everyday interactions, but what about my experiential life?
Many people sit at home and think of all of the places they haven't been or want to go. These places tend to be large effort trips that involve saving money. While these kind of trips are great, they exclude the now. By thinking morbidly, we live a little more on the edge and explore spontaneously. This leads to great short term trips that allow you see see and discover places that you didn't plan for. Sometimes places like these are the best considering the fact that you came into the experience with no expectations for the trip to meet. As I mentioned in an earlier piece of mine, traveling with little to no expectations leads to having a better experience while exploring the world.
Next time someone brings something up in a morbid way, I urge you to think about what they said in all reality. Through thinking morbidly, we might see a behavioral change within ourselves and others. We may decide to live life a little more in the now or maybe I'm just a college student that doesn't know anything. At the end of the day, I'm proud of the words I've said and the things I've done. Can you say the same?
