what we are promised...

"nothing in life is promised but death."
-kanye west (part of his grammy acceptance speech)

now who can disagree with this? who can say that this isn't absolutely true? the only thing in life that is for sure and that is promised is death. nothing else will happen for sure; success, love, progress, happiness they are all things that happen by chance. they are not a given, they are not promised...these are the things some are lucky enough to have. death is the only thing any of us can count on, the only thing that we can look forward to.

its kind of sad isn't it? death is the only thing in life that is promised in our lives, yet most of us are afraid of it. most fear death and try to run away from it. if given the chance we would live forever instead of go though death. we are afraid because we see death as an end, not a beginning. we are afraid because we do not see the other side to death. we see the end of life, the end of feeling, and end of living. but what we don't see is what is at the end of the road, the prize, the light at the end of the tunnel. we don't see the kingdom that is waiting for us. we don't see life after death.