Life As The Coffin

If Life Is A Coffin, These Are The Rules

You can learn a lot about life from almost anything if you open yourself up to what they can teach us. Being brilliant, I came up with the idea that coffins can offer us some valuable lessons about life. So here is my collection of coffins and what I think they tell you about life.

Rule One: Appreciate That Life is Fleeting and It Goes Quickly

Cardboard Coffin

Life is fleeting and temporary. You are only on this earth for a very short period of time. Make sure you enjoy it's many pleasures and treasures. Understand that like this cardboard coffin, you will surely fade and disintegrate with time, so whoop it up while you still can. Take what you love and enjoy it now, as it may not be there tomorrow.

“If you haven't felt the wind whipping in your car window when you are speeding down a straight road, slow down and savor it. If you haven't felt the pleasure of drinking a crisp cold beer in an iced glass, forget it. It's too late, your life has been a waster and you're practically dead already.”

Rule Two : Don't Fight Your True Nature

Shelves That Are Meant To Be A Coffin

Don't fight who you are. Even if you try to hide it, people can see right through you and see what you really are. So, learn to be happy with yourself and acknowledge both your unique strengths and weaknesses. If you're a coffin, don't try to be a bookshelf all your life. It's better to be a great coffin than a half useless bookshelf. Be proud of what you are and let everyone deal with you as you are. 

Rule Three : Understand That It's Good To Be Different

Sleek German Designed Coffin

There is too much conformity in the world. Being the same as everyone else is not always a good thing. So when you can and when you feel the desire, don't be afraid to be a little different.

For example, rather than choosing a boring mahogany coffin with brass handles to hold your body, perhaps you should go for the sleek, sexy look of a German designed coffin? The renowned German engineering may help bring you that much closer to heaven.

Rule Four: Try to Keep on the Sunny Side of Life

Bright Yellow Blooms CoffinFor example, you will probably find yourself feeling better if you decide to stare at a bunch of daisies (or better yet, Daisy Fuentes) rather than a bloated corpse at the funeral. So choose happy, not sad.

There seems to be two types of people in the world: those who try to enjoy life and those who just like to complain about it. I believe happiness is a choice you make in almost every situation. Granted, you can't be happy all the time. But, I do think that when there are moments that you can take pleasure and feel happiness, you should try to do so.

Rule Five: Make Time for Adventure in Your Life

Motorcycle Trailer Coffin

It's important to take risks in life. If you never stretch yourself to try new things or have enough fun, you will have missed out on all the thrilling adventures life has to offer. If a hot girl invites you over, say yes no matter what.

Make sure that if you are buried in a motorcycle coffin, it's because you loved riding your motorcycle and not because you never got to and always wanted to.

Rule Six: Accept That Life is Not Always a Picnic

Curved Willow Basket Coffin

If you thought you were going to become a billionaire by sleeping in late or look like Brad Pitt by not shaving, you are going to be disappointed. If you don't expect life to be a picnic, you won't be unhappy when it isn't. You may be a bit bitter, but not bitterly unhappy.

Hey, no one is going to fill up your picnic basket with tasty goodies for free. Face the reality!However, you're likely to be a lot happier if you go buy yourself a burger instead of waiting for that invitation and slowly starving to death.

Rule Seven: Entertain the Idea of Changing Your Life if You Don't Like It

If your life generally sucks, find ways to entertain yourself and to laugh at life. If that does not work and you still don't like your life, then change it.

Convertible Entertainment Center Coffin

Take this funky looking coffin that turns into an entertainment center as a source of inspiration. It's a coffin. Just turn a few screws and voila, it's an entertainment center. All it took was some hard work and a screwdriver. So find a screwdriver and fix the loose screws in your life. Make it your mission to go find something to screw!

Rule Eight: Try to Prepare Yourself for the Obvious

Combination Window Seat and Coffin

We spend so much time avoiding the hard facts in our lives. It's much more productive to invest the energy you would spend avoiding unpleasant things to preparing for them. If you stop denying that bad things happen and just start facing their inevitability, you may be able to find a clever way to take advantage of the things that are going to happen in your life.

For example, if you buy a coffin window seat, then you can use it throughout your life to take off your shoes. At the same time, you will have a handy place to store a dead body if you ever kill anyone. Now you're really thinking ahead! Think of all the ways your life would be better if you just planned ahead.

Rule Nine: If You Have To Do Something, Do It With Style

Gold Leaf EcoPod Coffin

In life, you are going to have to do things you don't really want to do, like die. If you have to do something and there is no way to avoid it, you should try to find a way to do it with style. In your life, try to do things so that your taste and values shine through.

For example, if you are dead, you might as well house your body in something that screams "YOU". Perhaps this gold lame coffin has your name all over it? If not this, then what? If it was my coffin, I'd probably have it look like a tasty hot dog with chili and extra onions on it. Mmm...

Rule Ten: Life is Simple, So Keep It That Way

Environ Continental Eco-Coffin

It's easy to get distracted from what is important in life. Society keeps telling you that the silly things like a bigger house, a nicer car or a hair on your head will make you happier. Don't fall for it.

The keys to happiness are pretty simple. Happiness for me is a good night's sleep, some delicious food, steamy sex with my lady, a nice big cr@p that fills the bowl, and a long hot shower ... not necessarily in that order. Find the things in life that work for you and don't get distracted by all the background noise of other people telling you what you should do, especially by some idiot writing about coffins.

So, from these interesting coffins, I hope you agree that you can learn a lot about life in death or at least from an accessory to death. What are some of the most important things you've learned about life?

Thank You Very MuchSompong Yusoontorn