It has been thirty days since my last entry on this blog.
A month of silence for the men who fasted even longer. Men who denied not just their passions and desires, but their actual needs for living! Men who willingly stretched the pangs of death as long as possible. Can you imagine the will and dedication it takes to remain focused upon the task at hand, of killing yourself by not eating?
That others might have Life and Liberty.
Had their fasting started upon the day I started my silence - they would still be fasting. All of them. Still. All that time that has passed between then and now, the starting of my silence until the end of it here, all that time that you have lived your daily routine and forgotten them. Yes, forgotten them.
And they would still be fasting, and fighting, and slowly dying.
Go back to DrunkenOso 's blog and read about them again. If they can take the time to refuse every meal unto death, you can take the time to read about them again. Plant their story in your soul. Make it a part of you. A daily reminder each time you pick up a fork and place food in your mouth; that you may exercise the Life and Liberty you have,and use the nourishment of that food, to do what is Right. Because they refused to eat for the same reason.
That is how we should live our lives. With the dedication to our purposes that in whatever we are doing were our endeavors to kill us, so be it. If it is the right Way, and we are commited to doing what is Right, full steam ahead.
Let us build a momument in our hearts to this, to these men, to the walking upon such a Path in such a Way, that we might remember daily how they lived their lives and died, that we might live our lives and truly Live.
With Passion, with Righteousness, with Dedication, with Commitment, with Mercy, with Compassion, with Justice.
With Sacrifice.
Living for others. Dying for others. Living a Life of Death to Self for the well-being of Others and for the Purposes of The Right Way.
That is what it takes to live Heroically. That is what it is to truly Live in Love.
