Yesterday morning i awoke to a terrible phone call; it was my brother telling me that our first cousin was found dead in her dorm room. This came as huge shock to the family, and all of us are grappling with our feelings and how to best handle it, especially since we were all supposed to have a family gathering for out grandmother's 80th birthday next weekend...
It is from terrible things like this that makes me realize appreciate the world. Life is a beautiful, to be cherished and enjoyed. There is so much to benefit from, so much to see, so much to do, so much love and beauty... All experiences, from the good to the bad, are a blessing in the fact that we can experience them at all. Fail a test? So what, there is still a life to live, etc. It saddens me that it takes tragic events like this for me to realize how much there IS to live for.
I cannot imagine the anguish someone must feel when they can no longer see the merit in living... I hope that I can perhaps build better bonds with others and make myself more open so that I could perhaps make someone feel special enough to get through their own dark times...
I fly out tomorrow afternoon to be with my family... After all the tragic deaths in my family over the last few years, this is just adding more hurt on to it all, but in a terrible way we are almost used to it...
Somethings we should never be desensitized to, but we are, after all, only human.
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