A Tree Grows In Brooklyn response #1

Death is a feeling we fear and welcome simultaneously. Those with adoration for life fear it. Those who live a lie or have sinned accept gratefully when death comes to take them home. The meaning of life and why we are born is a mystery that may never be solved. Why did God place us here in the first place? Why are we born if we are to perish regardless of what we do? Even the most advanced philosopher has been unable to answer such a simple yet complex question. There are ceratin moments in his life a man never forgets. Most importantly, what his purpose in life is.

Since God put us here, and for a short time only, we should make the best of it. Find a need in the world and fill it. Get a job, find someone to settle down with. Raising a family is the greatest and most meaningful task one can acomplish. Johnny and Katie have completed it with many hardships along the road. As you age, you succeed in your lifes ambitions. You go to Venice, see a play, visit the Grand Canyon. Francie wants to try every soda flavor just so she can say she has. She wishes she could see the world. When you pass away, your ability to do such tasks leaves you like you left this world for the next.

Death is considered the enemy of everybody. That's not true. Death simply means that your time on Earth has expired. There is no way to renew your subscription to Living on Earth. Some say there is a way to do so, however. Reincarnation is a widely believed phenomenon. Some consider others to be the re-incarnation of ,for example, their great grandfather. Francie may have the thought that Laurie is the newer version of her dad just an entirely different body. The idea of returning to Earth as a new person, with a shiny new mind and memory is just a theory that is most likely never to be proven. Johnny used death as his scapegoat to run from his drinking problem. It worked, but he could've found another solution. The fine thread that somebody hangs on between life and death is thin. Everybody reaches the point where it is cut or it snaps. It will happen, and it will take and give everything.