The Single Greatest Force

The single greatest force running this planet is the Death Urge (DU). It is why we (some of us) refer to ourselves as victims or sabotage ourselves in so many little ways. The rock that will get us (some day), the Damoclean Sword so tenuously dangled on the thread, the damn critters that got into our liver, the men in white coats calculating our demise, the international bankers and dare I say, the lawyers and (in the same breath)the reptilians.

It is the one force that recently drove a plumber out of my house forever. While he was attending a job in my home I mentioned casually that all of us had one thing stalking us each and every day and each day we were one day closer to it whether we liked it or not. He asked what it was and I said "death". He without flinching picked up all of his tools, told me how to fix the sink myself and where to buy the parts and said he would leave the work ticket open. I never heard from him again.

What I call another DU moment.