[ramonesfreak]

regarding......"fear of death really is just the result of being too attached to things in life—and that if you weren’t at all attached to these things, death might indeed not be very frightening"

i think there is some some truth in this. 25 months ago i lost my job. i was forced to sell off my belongings just to survive...thanks RPKESQ for buying my watch which helped me pay my health insurance for 3 months! ( i had a different screen name then).

I had to sell my house and my beloved motorcycles, many guitars, my car on and on and on. in those 25 months, i have been basically, homeless. most of my things are long gone and those that remain, have been in boxes, unseen and forgotten.

as i look back at my well employed and well paid life and compare it to my simple life now, living out of a back pack, i realize that none of it mattered much.

at the time i had to let go of my "things", i felt the tremendous fear and sadness of having to say goodbye to things i had become attached to.

without those things, i feel more at peace with myself and have a new sense of strength because i know that i do not need those things and, that they do not define my life or make my life what it is.

my need to be attached to things and even to people, is now much less while my willingness to accept what must come no matter how unpleasant, is now much increased, including death....

what will be interesting to me is to see if i replace all those things i said goodbye to once i get back into the work force at the level i was at before my new simple life....

and yea, i still have my 911. its the one thing of any value that i have left and i truly cant part with it yet, even though i can not afford to put gas in it let alone fix all that is wrong with it.