Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Coping with Death

We are all visitors in this life.

Diary entry from Aug. 3, 2006.- 15 years old

I'm in the car from the funeral [Aunt Sandy's].
I put in a rose, and shoveled 3 scoops of dirt into the grave.
It was the saddest moment.
At one point people were laughing and celebrating her life.
Celebrating life vs. morning death?
Ruby [her husband] was sick, he has nothing left. He is a lonley man, no more wife, in his 80s.
His reasons for living
1. Daughter ( One passed away very young from breast cancer)
2. Step grandchildren.
3. ??

Chemotherapy is slowly killing him.
His heart is broken
Its so sad, everyone dies.
"We are all visitors"- great grandpa.
We need to take life and fulfill it with joy and praise.

  • I felt like voming in the car from office to plot. I felt so sick. I almost burst.
  • I think I am mature, but today was alot for someone to cope with.
  • putting dirt on the grave was the hardest part.
  • i knew the entire mourners kaddish, saying it at a funeral changed the meaning and memory attached to it. (I used to associate it with saying it with friends during daily prayers)
  • We left the cemetery, turned around, and washed our hands off.
  • If we hadn't I would have cried.




Soon after Ruby died.





And after Ruby died, I became obsessed with death.

Old friends/ Bookends

My blogs will be life stories, lessons, trials and tribulations I have endured in my life.

It is easy for one to judge, but when one really listens and cares it can make all the difference.


Old Friends/ Bookends- By Simon and Garfunkel

Old Friends
Old Friends
Sat on their park bench like bookends
Newspaper blowin' through the grass
Falls on the round toes
Of the high shoes
Of the old friends

Old Friends
Winter companions the old men
Lost in their overcoats
Waiting for the sunset
The sounds of the city sifting through trees
Settle like dust
On the shoulders of the old friends

Can you imagine us years from today
Sharing a park bench quietly?
How terribly strange to be seventy...

Old Friends
Memory brushes the same years
Silently sharing the same fear

A time it was
It was a time
A time of innocence
A time of confidences

Long ago it must be
I have a photograph
Preserve your memories
They're all that's left you