~~~~~Life and Death~~~~ posted 1/26/2009 10:21:00 AM | 4 kudos what's this?     report abuse tagged: death, life, love, live

kywonder

Why is it when we are just little children that getting old seems to be the farthest thing from our minds? And death was only for old people, or so it seemed to me. Having been raised up without a TV, I never realized that young people passed away too. I remember when I had a first cousin die at the age of 10 and we were not allowed to go because death was something that mom thought was too traumatic for me at the age of 4 to see. Then I had another 3 cousins dies in a horrible car wrecks and a hit and run accident. They were 18, 16, and 10 respectively. Still being so young, I never even thought that they had their young lives snatched away from them before they had even began to live.

I remember thinking I would never turn 16. When I did, I didn't feel any different than I did at ten. Twenty still seemed like a long way off. Then at the age of 18, death was introduced into my life again. I lost one of my school mates who I had graduated with. She had gotten cancer while in high school and then was in remission for awhile. But during her senior year it came back full force and 4 months after graduation she passed away. We were the best of friends, so it really had an effect on my emotions. I began to realize that time waited on no one and we were never promised we would have tomorrow. Death came knocking on even the doors of the young. Two months later, I would lose my father at the young age of 47. Amazing, now 47 did not seem old at all, but was such a young age to go out into eternity.

I have lost a brother at 28 and a nephew at 23. So young, leaving behind a 3 month old daughter. The circle of life had ended for one and started for another.

Now that I am soon to be 54, I wonder where time went. I don't remember it flying so fast when I was younger. It seems that time and death wait for no one and death is always waiting just around the corner to snatch you away from this plane onto another one. Why some get to live to be in the 90's and some die before they ever get to be born, is a mystery that only the Creator of Life knows the answer to. Someday we may know it all and yet someday, we won't really ask questions because we will see and understand that things happen the way they do for a reason and it will someday make sense to us. But until then, I will cherish each day as if it were my last. I will not let one day of my life be wasted on things that do not really matter in the light of eternity.

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