I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I leave, I want to leave to my offspring a clear idea about identity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death.
As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences.
Whenever I feel like I'm getting too far away from where I need to be, I think about my sons and the legacy I have to leave for them - and it always brings me back to reality.
I think I want to talk about life from the point of view of death.
I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.
My goal is that after I am dead and gone, I want people to remember me for the person I am.
It's better to think of life as a proper journey with a beginning and an end. Maybe, I can settle for being immortalised on screen.
Our creator says, 'Here's your birth and here's your death' - and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience - and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on.
An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.