Life's Journal...

Took time off today for a funeral... I never liked funerals. It's not that they remind me of the inevitable but that feeling that it leaves in the heart...it's kinda difficult to explain, a kind of heaviness....from seeing the living mourn.

First time too that I went to the Memorial Park in Kebun 500. It's a nice place. Nicely landscaped and all that! Got me thinking... nice resting place.... does it really matter where we are returned?? I mean from dust to dust, ash to ash... when the soul leaves this temporary house, it's just a shell that's left and that shell will return to the earth too. Where you place it.... don't think so it's going to matter. And after a generation or so pass... you are likely to be forgotten. And the tombstone will be the one marker that indicates you once passed through this earth. But the ravages of time will also eventually swallow it up, like everything else.

But a few things are reinforced again this time around... life is about relationships. The love of a spouse, friend, parent, child, God .... without them, it's kinda difficult to make meaning of our existence. So, yeah... go live that life, fly that kite, walk the paddy fields.... appreciate the people in your lives. Our lives are enriched by it... till the day comes, when God calls us all home.