Taj

The smoke snaked through his teeth as his eyes dimmed, the light that once pervaded them consumed by the smoke. I could feel the sensation of freedom, "chillness", creeping along the landscapes of my flesh, the sensation gently trickling along the contours of my face. Thought became a dim potential in an expansive universe. A failing star in the darkness. She giggled as the sensation tickled her, reminiscent of flirtatious suitors that never could keep their hands off of her. Blankness. The engaged expression faded into a non-emotive stare, boring into a point someplace beneath my heart. The question came gently, as if from the depths of the smoke, "Dude?"

"Yea?"

"I've been contemplating some deep shit lately, I'm yammering about existential crap. "

"Hmmm...thats never good. I prefer to keep my thoughts thin and ethereal these days, any deeper and I'm probably gonna end up depressed *chuckle*. Fuck me."

"Yea? I mean you gotta engage that deeper level dude, or shit becomes meaningless."

"I suppose."

"But fuck you, I gotta toss these thoughts out there. I suppose that my thought process could be summarized in one question: If you found out that you had only a couple-of days to live...could you say you'd lived a good life?"

The question drifted up-and-out of the chimney and snaked up into space, leaving Lang-Quai miles behind, as our minds soared beyond the confines of our current space, violating not only space, but time. Every decision, relationship, and consequence annexed and analyzed under some self-imposed paradigm of "good". That time I golf-clubber my little brother across the face, tears, blood, pain-imposed, pain experienced, happiness taken, happiness given, good, bad, the tribulations of a thus-far incomplete human experience. The gruff chastising voice of Ram ended my thought process, but the question remains: If you found out you only had a couple-of days to live...could you say you'd lived a good life?"

Questions to consider if your planning to respond:

What defines good in the context of life?

Have you accomplished several, if not all, of the goals you have laid before yourself?

Have you positively affected others?

Have you had fun?

Would you last thought be a happy one?

I am gonna stop before I become preachy, but if you respond to the question please give other's the sight name so they may respond to.