Near-Death Experiences Help Us Become Who We Are

I just finished watching the Final Destination Trilogy. All three movies tell a story of surviving, and still dying in the end. No matter how many times one tries to escape death, there is no way outwitting it.

I've noticed that the current trend in movies today would usually start from the protagonist who actually loses his faith in God because of a tragic incident (like losing someone dear to him), but in the end regains his faith because of the same tragic experience realizing that God is around all along. This happens in real life, too. It is true that there is no way to cheat death, but there is definitely something we can do to prevent it from happening yet, or perhaps there's something God can do. As the adage goes, if it is not your time, then it isn't.

I have had my share of near-death experiences. When I was just a baby, I came out purplish, with the umbilical cord strangling me to death. I was dead for some minutes, but then I lived. Seven years ago, I survived a vehicular accident. The breaks won't work so we crashed on an elf truck and almost went underneath it. The windshields collapsed, and I was sitting beside the driver. I lived with cuts and bruises on my face and body. Thinking about my survival still gives me the creeps though, but still I have to thank God and Christ too, for not letting Death take me twice. Because of that, I realized that life is too short to waste.

Many people would agree with me that when we realize how short life is, we should try our best to live it to its fullest. Seizing every opportunity or just shopping until one drops would usually come to one's mind. But it could also mean living the good life - being what we are for who we are.

My experiences of miracles shaped me to what I am now, clasped between my two hands the realization that every second I spend in the world is precious, and that I should always make the best out of it. And making the best out of it does not only mean ensuring my own happiness but it also entails sharing that happiness to others, becoming the light to others.

As a future educator, I know that becoming a teacher would pave the way for my advocacy of sharing light to others. I am well aware that a teacher should become a role model to the students, and by becoming a model requires possessing good values. I recognize the fact that it is a little arduous to do for its idealism. However, I believe that no matter how things seem too utopian, it all starts there. It does not necessarily require that we do all good things at an instant, what is important is that we start accomplishing them bit by bit. By this, we won't have to say that we are not any good at all. We won't have to say that we have wasted our lives.

How did this encounter with Christ help me become the person that I want to be? In many ways I could count, my faith has molded me and is continuously molding me into a person I have been wanting to be. And what kind of person that is is still uncertain to me. It is a quest, a quest that I am still in.

According to David Bailey, a famous photographer:

We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heartthrobs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

How many years we lived does not determine what kind of people we are. Rather, how we lived our life determines us as persons.

Source of Quotation:
David Bailey, "David Bailey", Great Quotes.com