My friend passed away yesterday. Survived by an old mother, sister, brother-in-law, a niece who perhaps she had not seen and friends.
My batchmate whom I did not really know that well. She had a life to live ahead and not leave behind a mother who perhaps would not look so tired and lost.
Friends had gathered and like Shuchika and I perhaps even they were relating this to their own lives.
Death so sudden-so unbelievable. What can be darker than dark? Does the body feel a passage from life to wherever they go? Does it look back? My reference has changed from ‘she’ to ‘it’. How would the mother be feeling? It’s the loved one’s who are left behind and who feel the pain every single day.
Am I selfish to think who will mourn my death? Who all will I matter to so much? Isn’t it our purpose in life to love and be loved- as Jesus said-Love one another as I have Loved you.
And here we get caught in small, inconsequential worries, misplaced pride, envy, jealousy, malice and most incriminating of all-purposelessness. Caught up in frivolity. While time ticks by.
Is Death not the biggest truth of life? At the end, perhaps there are no are no grey areas. Just black or white.
A
2 years ago
1 comment:
So what if we die? what has it to do with truth? and if you go down even further, how can one explain truth? It's sad that she passed away and very soon your mind and body would adjust to that absence....
..and that is exactly what our lives are all about - adjusting!
And by expectin ppl to mourn at your death, you are not being selfish. It's just one way of ascertaining your own mind that you were part of a society or a group of ppl and that they accepted your presence. or in other words its a manifestation of ONE'S NEED FOR RECOGNITION, even in death. That's natural as long as you are a human.
Thankfully, people are taught to mourn other's demise, right from their childhood.
So some tears would be shed for everyone, no matter how hard the nut is :)
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