Remembrance

Why can't there be a cure for everything? Yes, it's fine we have maladies, diseases and pain, but with that, why not have cure for these as well? Why do we need to see others suffer as they struggle to keep themselves afloat, as their body slowly starts to wane and as everyone near them try desperately to find some ray of hope to keep them going? Heart is heavy.  Eyes are wet.  Words are failing. Hope is denting. But the fight is on.  And, must we fight.  And, keep on fighting. Because, warriors don't go to war to lose.  Either way, they win. And, must we win.  Please pray that we win.  

Death is the ultimate reality of life, yet losing a loved one to death is the most painful emotion. It creates a vacuum which can never be filled, no matter how much time passes by or how many new people enter into your life, that empty space would remain forever. As children, most of us never realised these sorrowful adieus, but as we grew up, crossed certain thresholds in age, death became a prominent fixtures in our lives. Some of us lost our grandparents, parents and even siblings, and some painfully children or spouses. The immense pain such a separation creates is beyond anyone's imagination. No one can ever understand what a person goes through at that moment, because that tragedy is personal. It is only the person who has lost truly knows what it means to never see a person ever again. There is no hope, those people are gone forever, and yet we might have taken them for granted when they were alive. We never account for the vulnerability of life, and cling to exp...