Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay,
- Shakespeare
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away:
O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,
Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!
December 18th, 2021
Both Alexander the Great and his mule-keeper were both brought to the same place by death—they were either received into the all-generative reason, or scattered among the atoms.
How often do we give more weight to important people in life? Is a celebrity more important than your dentist? Is a Fortune 500 CEO more important than the person that cleans the CEO's office? Is a US president more important than any one of his constituents?
We should all know the answer is "no". It is too often in life, we end up trying to rationalize that certain higher profile people are more important in life. Death is proof that this is false. Death in many ways is the greatest equalizer for life.
Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay,
- Shakespeare
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away:
O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,
Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!
We would serve ourselves well to remember when we might be getting too pretentious or perhaps on the other end feeling inferior, we are all going to end up the same way. Death reminds us that none of us is better and none of us is worse. All of our storylines will finish the same… "The End".