Death’s biggest fear

Jonathan Briones, that is death’s biggest fear. If there is something death fears most of all, is someone who has the willingness of living a fulfilled life, regardless of what that implies.

Having fear of death means to have a fear of life as well. Many people don’t want to take the risk of having the life they ever wanted, because that is too hard to accomplish, nobody believes in you, and the way to achieve said life may be life-threatening, and it is much easier to just do what others expect you to do in life. I’m not like that, not anymore.

Who am I? I’m an emperor. I’m the eagle within my national flag, fighting to preserve humanity.

I may not have an empire, nor throne, nor crown, nor empress nor anybody that actually understands me, and yet, these stories have been written by the hands of an emperor. I’m determined like one, I’m beautiful like one, I love like one, and I’m strong like one. Some people may call this as me having ego problems, I like to see it as a moment of realization, where I finally found my true value as a human being in this world, and I’m not going to let anyone tell me that I’m worth less than that.

At this point, I don’t even care if people will love me or hate me. If they hate me, I’ll always be in their minds, if they love me, I’ll always be in their hearts, the secret is to never be forgotten, and my god, will I not be forgotten, I’ll make sure of it. I’m crazy enough to think that I can change the world, lonely enough to not have anybody to tell me otherwise, and determined enough to actually do everything in my will to achieve what I want. Give me the toughest battles, the toughest decisions, I want to prove that I’m the toughest of warriors. I’m not afraid, for the worst thing that can happen is that I’ll fail, and even then, I’ll still be winning because I’ll be learning, but regardless of what happens, I do not give up, and my face will always be facing straight into the horizon, straight into my mission.

I know I can never defeat him, we both know that, and yet, I’m not running away, and if somebody will, it’ll be him, not me. That’s how things are going to be. I’m not avoiding death, he’ll be the one trying to avoid me, he knows many of his strategies are useless with me. He may underestimate my age, height, weight, nationality, but something he can never underestimate is my determination. I’m just a mortal, and yet, I feel I have the determination of demons.

He may even send me an entire army against me, and I’ll still be determined to fight against them all by myself. Don’t believe me? Bring me the army I shall fight against, and then we’ll talk. Death has messed with the wrong Mexican, with the wrong human being, and if I die, I shall die as the emperor that I am, in the midst of battle. That is my objective in life, enjoy it so much, that I’ll appear in death’s nightmares. Next time he hears my name, he’ll have chills down his spine, because I’m his biggest fear, only of the very few, if not, the only mortal who wasn’t afraid of him, who challenged him, and he’s the only person who, for the briefest of moments, made him feel how a mortal feels when death stares at him in the eyes.