How do you look at death? I had seen one, I had touched a dead person. Dealing with death and the deads are the ways for doctors, forensics, priests, embalmers or funeral homes. It had been their routine to explore the body of people who once walked this earth. They might wonder on the cause of death? They say people will all die and they differ only on the time elements. People die young and some die at old age. Their loved ones cry for them for a while but given enough time, they move on. But as they keep going on with life, they do forget. The "I will never forget you, our memories will stay within me forever” is not really forever. Time changes things and our minds keep replacing memories. So, how sure are you that if you die you had touched others people's lives, that you had been a part of them? How can you really be sure that all your works here on earth have at some point change the lives of the ones you had been with? When in fact, your death will dismiss everything you had worked for. Now that you are not with them, how can you say to them that they had to go on and should not mind your going? Yes, you had touched their lives and I think they had become dependent on you. They had lost their hope because they had been seeing the future with you. Now, they can’t go on with the plans because Death had taken you so sudden. What they do then? They move on because everybody tells them that it's the right thing to do. For a while, they put their mind in your mind setting and later on they had to follow their own for they can’t see things the way you had seen them.
Everything will fall apart as time moves on and as the wounds are being healed. The once big part of you in them will slowly evaporate. So, what then is our role on earth if things will all disappear with time? To touch other’s lives or to just pass this stage to eternity? On judgment day, we may stand next to the ones we love but I think we won't recognize each other like we had from the past. What we’ll be doing by that time is praising and rejoicing in eternity. All of us will be one family and we will start all over again; the loving, the caring and the happiness of being alive forever.
I once think of my own eulogy but I gave up the idea. Eulogies are only words of praise and gratefulness from the people around you. Eulogies are made to preserve and boost the image we had on others. It may be how the way we died or the way we had been as a individuals; every word is pleasing to the ears because they want to bring your memories on positive thoughts. People don't want to have nightmares when they remember you! And even if they don’t express negative thoughts, they can get rid of it through time. I had been a person who once was touched by someone and be able to change my life and it was through death that I was able to realize that everything had been useless. I was sliding down and at the same time losing the memories of a life that was once filled with sunshine. I had been to this stage and I proved that it isn’t our goal to induce something good to others. Our only role here is to enjoy our stay! And enjoying life can be done in different ways and touching lives is only a part of it. But we are not to split our lives with others for life is good when we are whole. It is not about giving a part of us to others but it is about sharing the moment of laughters and tears and still be a whole person.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
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