An essay in regards to being alive

We are not dying, we are living. The second death enters our mind is the second that we start to die. Death and life go hand in hand but you can not have one if you have the other. True, if you are living then you eventually must die but you can not live if you are already dead. If you are already in your coffin, or in ashes out at sea, then you cant live. In thinking about death, we are not living. What if we didnt know about death? Think how free we would be... Anything we wanted to do, we would do it. Of course there would still be pain, and social consequence, but the ultimate consequence would be gone! I've heard the saying live as if you will die tomorrow but I think we should live as if we will never die! Live as if there are not limits, no deadlines, no way to miss an opportunity, no regrets, no should haves. Because there is nothing to stop us.
Apply it now to love. What if we loved as if we could not be rejected? If there was no such thing as embarrasment or heartbreak think how free we would be! We could speak of love as soon as we felt it! We wouldnt waste any time with what-ifs and maybes. There would be no shame in loving, no complications, no need to lie or decieve. Most importantly, there would be no fear. The same as you can not have life and death you can not have love and fear. If we have fear we can not have pure love. We can not love people who are different if we fear them, we can not love what we dont understand when we are afraid. If we have war and hate then we have fear and there is no love. If we have peace and unitiy we have love and there is no fear.
To live as if there were no death and to love as if there were no fear, this is being alive.