Monday, February 19, 2007
Soft
This one's for you. You know who you are.
What can I say? I sit here and search within my souls for the words that will comfort, knowing there are none that can. I don't have the advantage of religion with quick and easy answers to what happens after. I don't know why we're here, whether or not a person has accomplished anything or if there is even a meaning to life, let alone what it might be.
But I know that, if the people we love were still here, they wouldn't want us to grieve - they would ask us to celebrate the happiness in their lives, the joy they had, the obstacles they've overcome. For those who have passed on never die - they exist as long as we remember them, and they are remembered for the good they have brought into the world - through their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, their accomplishments, their drive to help others. And that... that is something.
These words don't seem like enough to honor two women whom I never had the pleasure of knowing but who brought into the world one of the greatest people I have ever met... but perhaps, it is enough.
And so, once more, a page has turned.
What can I say? I sit here and search within my souls for the words that will comfort, knowing there are none that can. I don't have the advantage of religion with quick and easy answers to what happens after. I don't know why we're here, whether or not a person has accomplished anything or if there is even a meaning to life, let alone what it might be.
But I know that, if the people we love were still here, they wouldn't want us to grieve - they would ask us to celebrate the happiness in their lives, the joy they had, the obstacles they've overcome. For those who have passed on never die - they exist as long as we remember them, and they are remembered for the good they have brought into the world - through their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, their accomplishments, their drive to help others. And that... that is something.
These words don't seem like enough to honor two women whom I never had the pleasure of knowing but who brought into the world one of the greatest people I have ever met... but perhaps, it is enough.
And so, once more, a page has turned.
// posted by Dep @ 11:49:00 p.m.
