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Memento Mori
I’ve been into two different wakes this week. One was relatively old, the other was just about my age. It seems normal to me that every now and then I’ll hear someone old has died that’s why I guess that the death of someone my age struck me surprisingly. It filled my scumbag brain with the following thoughts: “It could have been me. I could die today. I could get run over by a bus tomorrow. I may not be here anymore this time next year. I’m blessed to have 20+ years of life, what have I done with it? Etc, etc.”
“Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life,” Murakami once wrote. When you lose a beloved one, you’re not the same person anymore, and you’ll have to deal with it, carry it with you for the rest of your life. I know how it’s like to lose someone, and I know very well how it’s like to lose someone dear at the start of the year.
I don’t really know them but I hope they find peace in their eternal rest wherever they are now. And I hope that yesterday would be the last time I’d be in a wake this year.
On a lighter note, masarap kumain ng masayang mani.
