Life and Death.

Everyone at some point in their life has a near death experience. That experience often changes the way that person thinks or acts or in the most extreme cases changes their life all together. Then, there is the very rare few who have actually experienced death in some way shape or form. Those people are never the same again, especially on their views of life and death. Those people are the ones who will talk about it the least.
I am one of those rare few who have experienced death or something very close to it. Years ago, when I was working for a truck company I was working that grave yard shift and was rushed to the hospital. When I arrived at the hospital my heart stopped. During the time my heart stopped I was aware of myself, the doctors and everyone around me. I was lying on the bed, I was aware...
Two things happened to me during that time that will forever plague my dreams, my imagination and fill me with hope and a joy that can not be described. I heard a very deep and comforting voice tell me softly “It is not your time, yet.” At the same time I saw a very special and dear figure to my heart sitting next to the curtain around my bead near the foot of my bed. A dog, a sheltie to be exact, not just any sheltie he was Rocky. My best friend from the time I was 8 years old until the day he died when I was 20.
The time I was technically dead felt like eternity and no time at all, all at the same time. Time had no meaning it had no presence. It just was. When I came to the doctor told me my heart had stopped for nearly 1.5 min.
I guess the most interesting thing is, that during that time I did not want to wake up…the sense of total peace, happiness and calm that I felt I never wanted it to go. But what entered my mind as the voice told me it was not time, was my wife and my two little ones. To this day I still dream of that event. But, never in the same way it had happened.
It was a lesson to me, a confirmation if you will of what was to come at some point in my future. I also understand that I can wait patiently for that future to come. I know it will and I can promise you that when my time does come, I will not be afraid.