Life and death coexist

In the end, we only regret the changes we didn't take.

-unknown-

How often do you think about life or death?! Or do you think about it at all?!  The mother of my old classmate just passed a few days ago. She's a bit older than my mother, yet it was too fast. It's been a long time since the last time I saw her or her son, so it was a bit surreal. I didn't know what to make of it. It hit my mother a bit worse than it did to me. They were good friends for a long time. There were many people at the memorial to pay respect. It just reminded me that whatever time we have, we should embrace and live it for the best. 

I believe that to get the deeper concept of "death", you have to have enough experience both living as well as death. Kids don't understand the concept of death because they don't have that concept about life. They don't understand why the life has to end. It takes time. In order for us to grasp that idea of "death", first we have to know that we are alive. And even after that, it still takes time to understand what it means to be dead. The first death in my family I experienced was my grandmother, I was 15 years old. I was old enough to understand what it meant to lose her. She went to be with the Lord. (although I wasn't Christian back then.) Now that I think about it, I didn't get to say good bye to her either. Just like I couldn't to my grandfather. Memorials and funerals aren't always for the diseased.  It could also be for the ones that are still alive, for those who couldn't say good bye, so that they can move on and start a new chapter. As the light and the shadow coexist, life and death coexist. Without death, there's no life. Without life, there's no death. We are all destined to die. That's something we cannot ignore. And life is beautiful and precious, because it's so fragile and short. It adds more meanings and value to it. We need to embrace and appreciate that deeply, because it's something that we cannot hang on to forever. 

When I die, I don't want to regret anything. I want to live and love life the most. You must have heard this before,  "Live as if there's no tomorrow". And that's exactly right. You never know if you will have tomorrow. We assume that we will. And we make decisions or plans based on the assumption that we will wake up tomorrow morning. And we rarely think about the possibility that you might even wake up and see the light of the day.. I will not tell you to live with fear that you might die tomorrow. That, I will not do. But at the same time I do want you to realize that you will not live forever. Even the struggles you're facing now, you can experience that only because you are alive. If you weren't, you won't even be able to think that your life is crazy, lol. Even though some people say you'd rather not, I still disagree. God won't put you here if you weren't meant to be here. You are here and this specific time for reasons. And there's no doubt about it. Most of the reasons, we will not comprehend. But that doesn't matter. HE knows exactly what HE's doing. So have a faith in him and keep going. Do not lose the sight of who you are and who you came from. 

Love as if there's no tomorrow. 
Live as if there's no Life tomorrow. 

Love, Hope and Faith....