The fear of death

In life we are faced with the inevitable fate of death, a fate which can be interprated in many ways because of its uncertainty.  One feeling in which often strikes within the hearts of any of us when thinking about death is fear.  Fear is the oppresser, fear holds us back from living a life of fullfillment, and makes us hesitant to make life decisions both big and small.  We don't take the couragious leaps of life in fear of failure, but this is no way to go about life, for this life that we lead has infinate possibilities just waiting to be unlocked.  The key to unlocking these possibilities is engrained in the wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita. 

Hinduism and Krishna's wisdom assure us that we do not have to worry as much about death for we are merely just occupying these bodies as if we were hermet crabs, moving throughout the wheel of life occupying different shells.  Reencarnation is a reassuring notion that our purist existence is much beyond our bodies and that death is only a cold reminder that we will start a new.  This belief takes on further varied interpretation on where our souls go for the time in between, and what body will they occupy in the next life.  Often I think about how some animals tend to have different personalities even among identicle specie much like humans would have.  So possibly we take on another body the resembles our personality, but the nature of reencarnation can be interprated however it must to please the beleiver.  Regardless of this different interpretation I feel it is important to echo the value in accepting things as they are, and being unattached to the outcomes of fleeting moments in our life.  There is so much to enjoy in life, to feel, to do, and these should all happen without our fatal flaw as humans shadowing over our light and slowing us down. 

To end this blog open ended I would like to propose a metaphysical question: Do you beleive this life only exists in our minds or is it a more objective existence? Justify your beleif.