Every single day many people die.Every single second someone dies!
People you don’t know.
People you don’t care about as they’re too far away.
Physically and spiritually too far away.
Because they don’t have any relation to you.
Because you have no time to think about it.
It’s just another death… that’s all.
While you’re giving a bite on your juicy beefsteak with chips during dinner another suicide bomber makes 30 more innocent deaths in Iraq.
You feel pity but you just get used to it.
Every fucking day you listen to the same kind of news.
Another car crash…
A fire due to a short circuit in an old electrical installation takes two more lives…
A husband kills his wife and kids and commits suicide…
Another car caught in a railway…
Due to a long term disease someone we don’t know has left this world…
Suddenly something changes…
You get to know someone who knows the one who died.
And then you know indirectly the one who died.
It’s like an ambush.
Then you know the one who died. Although not that well, you have once met him at a party and you even had a short conversation about politics with him…
You start thinking about it. Why him ? He seemed to be such a nice guy ! He didn’t deserve to die so young ! Does anyone do ?
And then we start thinking that death is closer than we ever thought before, like when we were eating that juicy beefsteak with chips.
It’s not that far away, and we are never ready for it when it involves someone we know and care about and love.
It’s much harder then.
Harder then when it’s over.
1 comment:
Funny enough I was just thinking alot about life and death lately and was even thinking about blogging on it.
I have been thinking of the people I have loved and lost, the people I love and will lose, of my own mortality, of my beautiful children's - and somehow feel that this living and dying thing is a little tiring.
I am affected by the (often senseless) deaths of those people I do not know - and if you believe in karma and reincarnation like I do, you wonder about what awaits you in your next life. Though since for the moment I have yet to finish this one, there is no guarantee that it will continue to be this good, of course.
Do you think we are born good or evil, Sergio?
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