The Cold Hands

Sometimes, you just sit there and stare into empty space. Its not like you don't have stuff to do but your mind is so far away from where you're sitting (or standing as the case may be). The rationale behind this kinda mood ranges from finance to family issues and the list can go on and on. Death, to me, is the worst of them all.

When you lose someone so close to you, your mind begins to wander the cold and lonely wilderness of sad thoughts and imagination. You begin to remember the times you spent together and how intertwined your paths were.

Clear in my memory is the ugly accident that took a very close relative of mine away. As much as I try to suppress the thoughts of him, the harder it becomes to get my mind off it. We were close so much so that he was my confidant and I his. Looking back to those times and how it all went until I lost him, I begin to see life from a whole different perspective.

Ideally, no one was promised immortality in the land of the living but then again, we all love to fool ourselves (or should I call it a form of consolation?) that we're going to live to grow grey hairs and be left with a 'toothless' mouth before we die.

In the end, what we all should learn is to live our lives better......better than last year; better then last month; better than last week; better than yesterday; better than the previous hour. We've got to live better so that when we're gone, which could be any time from now, we'd have lived a life worth thanking God for.

To everyone that has lost someone (haven't we all?), I share in your pain. May God give us all the strength to bear the loss.

Sad but true, lets all have it at the back of our minds that nothing is sure in life...asides change and DEATH.