I saw a preview for a film about a man who is trying to learn what human beings can do to extend their lives. As part of this research, he has a regimen where he eats certain foods, exercises, takes vitamins, and does anti-aging treatments every day. I couldn’t understand it because I believe that God has a plan for each of our lives. He decides when we live and when we die. There’s nothing I can do to change the date of my death.
That doesn’t mean that I don’t want to do things to be healthy. My parents spent the last few years of their lives not really living. They had a difficult time moving and they were in terrible pain from various medical aliments. I felt like their quality of life didn’t extend into the last part of their life. I don’t care how long I live as long as I stay healthy enough to enjoy as much of my life as possible. I don’t want to defy age as much as I want to just be healthy and enjoy life. That is the other reason I cannot understand people like the man in the film who take extraordinary measures to try to live as long as possible.
These people change their lives so that they spend a significant amount of time on doing things to extend their lives and that time could be spent actually living life. If they put as much energy as they did into living life and experiencing the gift that God gave them, then they wouldn’t need more time. We aren’t alive to try to be so prideful that we think we can do what God does, we are here to appreciate the gift of life.
It’s kind of strange to me, but humans who understand the value of life don’t want to take life, but they don’t want to live forever either. I believe God has a reason for my transition from birth into life and when I die, He’ll have a reason for my transition from life into death. I have faith that their meaning to it all and I have faith in His plan. I’m not going to try to change it, I am just going to embrace the experience and be thankful for the gift that I have been given.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
