November 14, 2010 || 10:42pm
I still can't believe it. I seriously cannot see why life is given and taken too quickly. An experience this evening just made me more curious to know how life and death works.
My friend's friend (May he rest in peace and may the Lord bless his soul) is a person I can often see posting on my friend's wall. I personally do not know him or how important he is to two of the most important people in my life, I still know that it really would be nice if I get to meet him. Oh. That is if I got the chance to meet him. It was days ago, I know, when I last saw him post something on my friend's wall and I can really see that they were really good friends. But my friend posted something this afternoon that made me contemplate on this and blog. She said that she was so lucky to have an awesome friend like him and that he will be missed. I thought he just took a vacation somewhere but my heart was pounding when I saw people's comments. Condolences and such.
How can one perfectly normal life be taken away in an instant? I don't really know what happened but it doesn't only apply to him. Everyday in this amazingly mysterious world, someone is born and someone dies. That is already given and understood. But what's mysterious about it is how fast a life can be taken away from everyone around it, how it is ever possible that the person sitting next to you in a bus can leave this world tomorrow, or how the jeepney in front of your car can turn over when it rains so hard next week. These may be the worst case scenarios but possibilities can never be predicted. What happens is set to happen but we never know.
You may be a person who takes care of his health by drinking vitamins, eating the right food and getting enough sleep, but death doesn't really choose its victims. But don't take death negatively. Yes, it may sound negative, painful, or sad, but it's a reunion of Father and His children. Well, it is negative if seen from an human and earthly perspective but death is not a boundary but a bridge. We cannot see the person physically anymore but he will always be there in our hearts and minds if we choose to keep him there.
Somehow, later in our lives, we will soon be reunited with our beloved departed. Whatever religion we might belong to, we would always know that. It's a way of making it a consolation; joyful detachment.
A lot of questions are still going on inside my head but for now, I just can't believe the news. To end this, I would just like to tell you that I'm reading this awesome new book called "The Survivors Club" by Ben Sherwood. It tackles matters that are about surviving a life-or-death situation. It's really good to be prepared for these kinds of happenings. But what I think of it now is that it's just something that will keep us around longer. So that we may have stories to tell that we grew old or survived some kind of extreme situation. But in the end of all our lives, it doesn't matter how we'll die. What matters is what kind of life we had and how we lived it. Not the challenge that led us to death but the challenges that we faced when we lived. We celebrate not what happened when people died, but what difference they were able to make, no matter how big or small, when we were still witnesses of their earthly presence.
And lastly, God doesn't just do toss coins when He decides when people would die. He knows when we have served our mission and when it's enough. He loves us and he would not take people from us just because he wants to. He makes it happen for reasons. We just have to accept how life goes and death is part of it. Letting go of a person might not be easy but just think that somehow, God may have a better way for you without that person in your life here on Earth. This is just temporary and we should know that. Let's appreciate life now 'cause we never know when it'll be gone. That's how it goes. It's a big mystery that everyone has been thinking about but no one dares to solve. It better go that way.
I still can't believe it. I seriously cannot see why life is given and taken too quickly. An experience this evening just made me more curious to know how life and death works.
My friend's friend (May he rest in peace and may the Lord bless his soul) is a person I can often see posting on my friend's wall. I personally do not know him or how important he is to two of the most important people in my life, I still know that it really would be nice if I get to meet him. Oh. That is if I got the chance to meet him. It was days ago, I know, when I last saw him post something on my friend's wall and I can really see that they were really good friends. But my friend posted something this afternoon that made me contemplate on this and blog. She said that she was so lucky to have an awesome friend like him and that he will be missed. I thought he just took a vacation somewhere but my heart was pounding when I saw people's comments. Condolences and such.
How can one perfectly normal life be taken away in an instant? I don't really know what happened but it doesn't only apply to him. Everyday in this amazingly mysterious world, someone is born and someone dies. That is already given and understood. But what's mysterious about it is how fast a life can be taken away from everyone around it, how it is ever possible that the person sitting next to you in a bus can leave this world tomorrow, or how the jeepney in front of your car can turn over when it rains so hard next week. These may be the worst case scenarios but possibilities can never be predicted. What happens is set to happen but we never know.
You may be a person who takes care of his health by drinking vitamins, eating the right food and getting enough sleep, but death doesn't really choose its victims. But don't take death negatively. Yes, it may sound negative, painful, or sad, but it's a reunion of Father and His children. Well, it is negative if seen from an human and earthly perspective but death is not a boundary but a bridge. We cannot see the person physically anymore but he will always be there in our hearts and minds if we choose to keep him there.
Somehow, later in our lives, we will soon be reunited with our beloved departed. Whatever religion we might belong to, we would always know that. It's a way of making it a consolation; joyful detachment.
A lot of questions are still going on inside my head but for now, I just can't believe the news. To end this, I would just like to tell you that I'm reading this awesome new book called "The Survivors Club" by Ben Sherwood. It tackles matters that are about surviving a life-or-death situation. It's really good to be prepared for these kinds of happenings. But what I think of it now is that it's just something that will keep us around longer. So that we may have stories to tell that we grew old or survived some kind of extreme situation. But in the end of all our lives, it doesn't matter how we'll die. What matters is what kind of life we had and how we lived it. Not the challenge that led us to death but the challenges that we faced when we lived. We celebrate not what happened when people died, but what difference they were able to make, no matter how big or small, when we were still witnesses of their earthly presence.
And lastly, God doesn't just do toss coins when He decides when people would die. He knows when we have served our mission and when it's enough. He loves us and he would not take people from us just because he wants to. He makes it happen for reasons. We just have to accept how life goes and death is part of it. Letting go of a person might not be easy but just think that somehow, God may have a better way for you without that person in your life here on Earth. This is just temporary and we should know that. Let's appreciate life now 'cause we never know when it'll be gone. That's how it goes. It's a big mystery that everyone has been thinking about but no one dares to solve. It better go that way.
“There is nothing certain in a man’s life but that he must lose it.”
-Owen Meredith
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