27 February 2006
Well snowboarding was unexpectedly cancelled this weekend, due to a family loss. That coupled with my surgery, and the nice flu bug I happened to catch early Monday morning has made this weekend......lets just say less than fun.
So I have to go to a wake today, which I am not pleased to do. No one ever likes to do this, I know, but it makes me very uncomfortable, dealing with human mortality. During this time, you can't avoid death, can't think about something else, you know then clearly and plainly that we are all going to die. No romantic or heroic thoughts, just the plain fact that we are mortals, and that is it. Mortality is our greatest weakness, but it is also our greatest asset. If we lived forever, nothing would be special, nothing would be one of a kind, love and things of that nature wouldn't matter as much as if we were all immortal. So I guess this is the way of things, and all we can do is just try our best to deal and do the best we can in life. Because it can, and will, change in a heartbeat.
More to come on Wednesday, after I have this god-forsaken surgery. Later.
So I have to go to a wake today, which I am not pleased to do. No one ever likes to do this, I know, but it makes me very uncomfortable, dealing with human mortality. During this time, you can't avoid death, can't think about something else, you know then clearly and plainly that we are all going to die. No romantic or heroic thoughts, just the plain fact that we are mortals, and that is it. Mortality is our greatest weakness, but it is also our greatest asset. If we lived forever, nothing would be special, nothing would be one of a kind, love and things of that nature wouldn't matter as much as if we were all immortal. So I guess this is the way of things, and all we can do is just try our best to deal and do the best we can in life. Because it can, and will, change in a heartbeat.
More to come on Wednesday, after I have this god-forsaken surgery. Later.
I am very sorry to hear of your loss. My thoughts are with you and your family as always.
yeah man..sorry for your loss as well....and also i hope your surgery goes well.
:tjbavi