I was driving and saw a cross and artificial flowers pinned down on the highway greens?

...I usually just pass by feeling sorry for that person/family and move on, but this time I saw two. And then I thought what if that were me? I didn't want to think about it, but life is very fleeting and we never really know when we'll go.





Isn't life a waste if they go when they've totally had a plan, excellent goals, and was trying to accomplish alot? Thinking this makes me feel bad...

I was driving and saw a cross and artificial flowers pinned down on the highway greens?
There is a way to combine sadness with hope. It has to do with the understanding that life is cyclical, like sleep, and that, since time has no beginning,or end, there is no point at which all is lost..
Reply:It isn't so sad if you look at it differently. If you know that you are going to a better place when your life ends here it is great. Each day is an opportunity to bring honor and glory to God. Thank God for each day He gives you and rejoice when He calls you home. If all that life had was material gain it would indeed be sad but there is so much more. You can have an impact that will be eternal if you strive to show the love of God to others.
Reply:I believe its a bigger waste of life when a person has all the goals and plans then lives to a ripe old age but never follows through with them.
Reply:Yes it is a shame that they would have to go when they were that confused.





It would be better if they would have went after they realized that the only worthwhile goals were peace and happiness.





Love and blessings Don
Reply:If they went Home, then they were finished. Were they still here they still would have something they came for on the way Home.
Reply:I know this may sound strange but I have seen so many on the roadside that I have had the urge to take photo's and to find out who they people were, right a book about them so they are not just something you pass by and forget.
Reply:A story written by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) called the "Mysterious Stranger" helped me to better understand why bad things can and do happen to good people. I would not tell you how to feel-since I consider all feelings to be valid. With a better understanding your feeling may change.
Reply:Life isn't like a play that must have three acts to be complete. A life is complete and self contained whether it lasts one year or a hundred.
Reply:Perhaps it is a big waste, but for me its' more about trying to live what life we can where and when we can.





No-one can totally predict when they are going to die, no-one can make a plan and guarantee it to last for an entire life time.





Its' not the end result that matters, its' the journey that makes the story that makes it all worth while or not...so we just have to live our lives where and when we can if possible.





toodles
Reply:Life, it happens. Yes sad, but you cant change it, some feel you can alter fate, but I am not sure.
Reply:When you think about life from the perspective of the individual, it often seems quite pointless and irrelevent. In the movie "Unforgiven", Clint Eastwood says something to the effect that when a person dies, everything he is, was, and ever will be is taken away. I disagree; I think when a person dies, that person may or may not have made a lasting impression on the world. If he has, that will go on and affect more people. I think, if humanity is more important than the individual, then a life that has made an impact has been well spent.