Due to on-the-road accidents, nearly 100 of us will die today across these United States. Years ago, I had a very, VERY REAL nightmare that on my way to work, I was mangled in a horrible auto accident, and left with just minutes to live. Everything that was happening, everything I was feeling, it was all SO REAL.
Knowing that I had only minutes to live, a stream of thoughts rushed through my mind:
“Why did I waste so much time doing XYZ?
Why didn’t I use the time I had to go for ABC?
Why did I let QRS bother me so much?
Why did I just keep sleepwalking through this job I’ve been working??
Why didn’t I listen to my soul’s voice for what I could and should really be doing with my life..??”
As I reached my final few breaths of life, the consciousness stream desperately repeated:
“If I JUST had another chance–I could do ABC. If I just had another chance, I could LISTEN to and FOLLOW MY SOUL’S VOICE!!!”
Through the course of these final few breaths of life, I suddenly realized how truly ENORMOUS is the potential that I in addition to YOU and EVERYONE else has in this life we’re living–and only when everything was so quickly slipping away did I finally feel more ready than ever to actually open myself up to and seize this vast potential–to actually live life in a way in which I could wake up and go to bed every day feeling truly happy and spiritually self-assured with the path I was taking with life.
As my final few breaths wound down, soul full of trauma, I reached the end. Death.
Then I woke up.
This nightmare was so real, that part of me still wonders if it actually happened–and that after dying, I was placed back into my body, back in bed over the weekend to awaken and to digest the full meaning of the experience. Who am I? Why am I here? What should I be doing with the limited time available to me?
At the time, I couldn’t just leap out from the entirety of my current existence and role I’d been living; however, I could plan radical changes in life–and ultimately, this is exactly what I’ve done: I’ve radically transformed the life I was living. Life now is much more challenging than it was ten years ago, and it’s also vastly more rewarding. The challenges may not always be fun, but I learn from every one of them.
Recently, I’ve again dreamed of a death scenario:
I was in a shopping mall, and gunmen opened fire. I was in the line of fire and was hit twice in the abdomen. I wasn’t sure if I’d be surviving or not. This time, however, there was no “Oh Shit!” expression on my face. This time, I fell to the ground and found a smile on my face and in my heart. In recent years, by and large, I’ve been walking the trail of the life I feel I should be living. And the greatest lesson of the road that I’ve learned is this: whether I shall pass from this Earth in 60 years from now or 60 days from now, the most important object in life is that each of us (you and I) continue to follow our soul’s voice through the path which is our unique role for creating the better, brighter world for ourselves in addition to the world around us.
Hopefully, we aren’t one of the 100 Americans who succumb to on-the-road accidents today, tomorrow, or any day. That said, having walked by and through countless graveyards from coast to coast, one thing is certain: you and I will both reach those final few breaths of life as well. This has happened to people we know, and it will happen to us as well. It may happen in 60 years, or it may happen later this week. It WILL happen. Therefore, the most critical life’s question you must ask yourself is:
“What state of mind do I wish to be in as I reach my final few breaths of life..?”
Meditation will clear the clouds of clutter and reveal your soul’s path to you–even if the path extends across mountains over which you cannot yet see.
Only by following your soul’s path will you truly be ready to transition on, at your time.
Only by following my soul’s path every day will I ultimately reach the greatest goal of my life–a goal which is ultimately be summed up in two simple words–only then will I “DIE SMILING.” <3 
