FEEL GOOD – CELEBRATE THE DEAD
Feel Good by Celebrating The Dead
Tomorrow, November 1, is “All Saint’s Day.” Tonight is “All Hallows Eve.” This is the source of our Halloween. Today is the day that traditionally the Europeans (before Christianity) celebrated their dead. It was the day that people would remember their ancestors. It was Isaac Newton who said, “If I see further it is because I’m standing on the shoulder of giants.” That’s the difference between us human beings and other animals. We share 98.5 percent of our DNA with Chimpanzees. However, we learn from our dead. We live on through our progeny. Each generation stands on the shoulders of previous generations.
Basically we share 100% of our DNA with the Homo Sapiens (our subspecies) of 25,000 years ago. Yet our knowledge has doubled in the last 50 years. Are we more intelligent than our ancestors of 25,000 years ago? No, what we are, where we are is due to all those humans who have gone before us.
So today take some time and celebrate the dead, not just your own family but all human beings going back to at least 2,000,000 years ago. Thank the Creator that you are a human being. Statistically we are quite rare. If there was a lottery and you could have been born as any living being on Earth, there is more than a billion to one chance against being born as a human. After all you could have been a cockroach, spider, ant even an HIV virus.
So today remember the dead and remember that one day you’ll be dead and here is the point about today and Feeling Good: you owe it to the future to be the best you can be.
You are one of those giants of the past to the people of the future …
Think about yourself as that giant and Feel Good.
… the Divinity within me salutes the Divinity within you …
rjsilverfox
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