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Why Are You Afraid To Die?

Abdul Azeez
3 min readMar 31, 2020

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My quick question for you is what would be affected if you ceased to exist today? Is it that goal you have been seeking or that impact you have been making? Oh wait, what goal and what impact are you talking about? For most of us, the lives we have lived and the life we have ahead of us can be summed up in a sentence. Survive till the next day. That is all, no specific goals or dreams that keep making us better versions of ourselves.

Well, we might have dreams like make so much money, marry the love of our dreams. Then what else if all these ephemeral goals have been achieved. Do we then say we have achieved all we want and are ready to give up on life? With so many days to sit at home, I honestly think it is time we began to review what we live for every day. And what does it mean when we stop existing?

Our greatest fear is not that we have to die, well everyone would die, our fears should be that we lived so long and made so little impact even on ourselves. The true test of the values of our lives is in how much we were able to push ourselves from where we currently are to where we want to be. Close your eyes for a minute and imagine yourself 20 years down the line doing the same exact thing you are doing right now. Now open your eyes. Do you feel the need to do more of what you are doing or less of it? Do you think you need to change your entire goal and move onto…

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Abdul Azeez
Abdul Azeez

Written by Abdul Azeez

A Java Developer By Day, Python Developer By Night. Becoming Better Day by Day is my Ambition

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