Someone told me I should die empty. I told them that I would die full. They said I was selfish. I told them I was being generous.
Dying empty has seen the world in flames, innocent people dead, corpses unburied, fathers burrying children, children becoming fatherless, women raped, and life becoming meaninglessly torturous.
Dying empty is a destructive mantra, one that is advocated for naively. The scope of its destructive potential seems to elude the minds that champion it.
What does it mean when they tell you to die empty? They mean you should live fully, experience fully, and go to your grave while exhausting every moment, feeling, thought, and emotion that lived within you. Isn’t that good? It is partially good. It is partially worse. It is like fire—a good servant and a bad master.
To tell someone to die empty is to tell them to unleash their nature fully. and that’s a bad joke. Imagine telling Hitler to die empty. Imagine telling Stalin to die empty. Imagine telling the human monsters who have walked in the annals of history to die empty. Thats tragic. That’s more than tragic. That’s stupid and tragic.
It is daring the devil by throwing yourself from the pinnacle of the world for nothing but a crumb of the world’s kingdom. It is selling your liver for a bottle of liquor.
The phrase might be interpreted to mean that we should exhaust our potential. The positive potential that enables us to work for the better of the world But we are dual, naturally, and either way,we can choose to exploit our duality because the positive and negative work for us.
If you want people to die empty, at least specify the emptiness they have to die with. People should die full and empty. They should die full of negative natural inclinations and empty of positive natural inclinations.
Kabwere Musa
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