Life

The passing on of a colleague set me thinking alot. The fleeting things in life stand weak in front of death. Nothing seems more important than clinging onto our fragile life.

I do not know the colleague of mine. Neither have I met him before. I know people who do, and I am quite sure most must have very saddened to hear of his death. The air in the office felt a little still in the morning as news of his death spread, as if even the air was moaning. But this stillness was very soon replaced by the familiar buzz of a typical work day. It made me think how small and insignificant each and everyone of us are in this world. With death, we quickly become mere memories in people's life. Then we will fade away as memories fade, we will disappear as memories vanish. The world doesn't stop a second for you. The world continues to spin, people move on with their lives. Wouldn't our accomplishments in life mean anything? All that we achieved in school, all that we accomplished at work, wouldn't any of them represent us in this world even as we pass on?

The hard truth is no. None would matter anymore. Death brings us away from the world and all worldly things, to our Father's place in Heaven. But that doesn't mean we should waste our lives away because nothing matters. We may become a memory, we may even fade off with time, yet isn't this the very reason we should treasure each and every moment of our short and fragile life, that we may impact the lives of people we love by loving them with all our hearts? Isn't this why we ought to cherish every second of our frivolous life with people who mean most to us? As sure as the time may come that we have to leave them, it may too be so the time may come that they would leave us...

Life is simply too brief for us to waste away with hatreds and discords, it is too momentary for us to ruin or squander away... Good to give the above some thoughts. I will too.