This Beautiful Painting...

The Death of Socrates, 1787
Jacques Louis David (French, 1748–1825)
Oil on canvas 

This beautiful painting confronts us individually 

with the issue of one’s own death 

which someday has to be faced; 

and this painting challenges each one to examine himself 

to see if there is an inkling as to what is really valuable. 

Death, of the body, will surely come. 

The real issue is: 

What is real development and maturity 

intended to happen between birth of the body and death of it? 

Let us live this question for some moments, some days.

~N