Recently my son asked me this question, out of nowhere, he was sitting on a chair drawing as he always does. His question did not make me feel intimated or fearful about how to talk about this topic with someone so young and a little human being I love immensely. I had discussed this topic with him before, when he was 6 and then 7, due to the fact that two of the most beautiful men I have ever met, my younger brothers, had passed away, one in 2018 and the other in 2021. So death has been a topic that we had to face and learn how to talk about to our children, when the time comes, when it is appropriate, and when they start asking these kind of existential questions.
“A donde voy cuando muero?” He asked me last week. I replied to his answer and although I will not dive deep into what I said to him in this post, I will just say that he took my answer with much serenity. My heart is tranquil.
His question triggered one of Dr. Wayne Dyer’s phrases to return to my mind and stay there for a while: “ DON’T DIE WITH YOUR MUSIC STILL IN YOU” . And then I reflected about this quote and about what is the music that it is still in me that I have not played or sang yet.
What this quote invites us is to reflect about the ONE thing (but it could be more than one thing) that our hearts are calling us to do.
Where do we go when we die? We all have our beliefs, shared or not, it does not matter. What matter is what we all share. While we are here on Earth living what we call LIFE, we are called to fulfill a higher purpose. It could simply say that our highest purpose is to live life blissfully. Yet we place many obstacles in front of us. But if we listen to our hearts and follow the calling to doing the ONE thing or things that give us true joy, then we are fulfilling our purpose by playing our true music.
My writing is like my music. I am singing my song.
What is your music?
