Michael Jai Grant
1 min readApr 15, 2022

The truth is it doesn’t matter. You are here. Now. In This Time and in This Place living This Life. Will you come back? Have you been here before? Will you experience a heart attack, “die” and then survive another 40 years? Will you reunite with loved ones, lost pets, famous people who went before you? Again, it doesn’t matter.

ALL that matters is that you strive to live your best life, work with the cards you've been dealt or find a new hand if you don't like 'em.

Death is not a trick, it’s not an ending, it’s not a void, it’s not a journey, it’s not a reunion. It’s a transformation of your energy from one form into another. It cannot be known. It is something everyone will experience, and no one will witness. Your energy will still exist, but it won’t be accessible to you or anyone else in the same way. Caterpillar to butterfly.

Set death aside and take the precious sliver of time you have NOW and do something with it. Then, when the time comes, and it will come, it will simply be The Next Thing. Live as if you already experienced an NDE (but please oh gosh please don't instigate one!) and continuously take stock, be adventurous, be good, share your love, the true magic of being human.

Nobody will remember you specifically past a small handful of generations. You're here for the experience of being here. Now. In this form and with this consciousness.

Don’t worry about death.

Focus on your Life.

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