Three Ways To Die; What's The Best Way???

I believe there are three ways a person can die. They can die an animal, a man, or a god. This is relevant because it pertains to how a man should live their life. 

Here’s what I mean, if a man were to die an animal, it means he was a slave to his animalistic instincts. Doing things only that felt good and avoiding things that didn’t. A slave to his passions essentially. To die an animal is to live in bondage to base instincts—pursuing pleasure, comfort, and immediate gratification while avoiding any discomfort or discipline. Such a life is ruled by appetite, fear, and desire, with no higher aim than survival and satisfaction. 

You can die a man, when you fall into that neutral or gray area. You are not a slave to your passions and possess the knowledge to discipline yourself in certain areas, yet you are not operating at your fullest potential either.  To die a man is to live with self-awareness, moral responsibility, and the discipline to rise above impulse, striving for reason, virtue, and meaning. It is a life balanced between flesh and spirit, aware of its limitations yet committed to integrity. You are like a lemon that is only half squeezed. There are many men and women who have some portion of their potential to go to the grave with them. As we have heard many times, the graveyard is the richest place on earth. To explain this in a different way; To die a man, is to die without maximizing all of your stats and badges. To die a man is to die having been drifting for the majority of one’s life. This is when people operate so securely in their comfort zones that they leave this world without stretching themselves to their fullest extent. To die a man is when you have the faulty notion that your life is your life and not the one GOD has granted you.

Lastly and the most preferred way to die, is to die a god or goddess. This occurs when one dies ‘fully squeezed’ so to speak. It’s when you can come to your natural conclusion without any dread or unease, but peace. This is due to the fact you have taken the creativity and talent that GOD placed within you and you manifested said creativity and talent outside of you, into the world. In other words, you died and hopefully lived, to be more like GOD and Lord Jesus. It can be asserted that the only way in which one can reach and then maintain their godhood status would be consistently operating within the highest levels of their identity. To die a god is to be able to say to oneself that they have become all that they could have become, done all that they could have done, and had all they needed to have. It’s through the pursuit of wisdom, virtue, and excellence that one harbors the ability to become and thus die a god. To die a god is to transcend even the realm of man, acting not merely according to duty or reason but in creative mastery and self-actualization—shaping one’s own values and living as a force of purpose in the world. 

“Every Story of every great man ends the exact same way; ‘And then he died too’. “

 –ATG3 09/2024

“If you knew how quickly people would forget about you after your death, you would not seek in your life to please anyone but GOD.”-- Saint John Chrysostom