Making Sense Of Things, Like Death For Example
I just came from a friend's funeral. He was my wife's former high school classmate, my collegemate and friend, and even my compadre. He was just 27 years old. He was a talented person, a genius when it came to computer graphics. I even worked with him during my stint as the school's yearbook Editor in Chief. He was part of my CD team. After graduation, I kind of lost track of him although I would hear news from him through social networks like friendster or facebook. Of course, the last time I saw him was during my son's christening.
He was the eldest of two siblings. His younger sister is also a good friend and a fellow Lasallian. Just like his sister, he was a very good human being. In the short span of time that I got to know him, I had the impression that he was a very good friend. We had a nice time in Davao when the entire CD team of the Yearbook went to have our R&R and submitted their raw data. He used to date a high school classmate and friend as well so we used to hang out once in a while. The last time I remember was when a group of us went to Campuestohan to hike and take a bath in the falls.
Now he is gone and for many of his friends, his death has come as a shock to everyone. I received the news when I was in Makati, homebound from Tagaytay. I could not believe it at first. He was too young to die. He was relatively fine and his facebook revealed that he was even having fun playing Mafia Wars.
During the funeral mass, I read the First reading and it was taken from the book of Wisdom. It was perhaps one of the most moving funeral masses I have ever attended. During the eulogies, I was moved the most by his sister's farewell speech. He was such a big loss to his family.
It made me thinking about how Life can be so unfair. Why him? Why this good young man? I mean, there are so many walking corrupt and evil people roaming the world, why not them first? Like the people in DOH still retaining our Hazard Pay. Why not them, Lord? Why not those greedy and selfish people who have nothing to do in the world except make other people's lives miserable? Why not them, Lord? Oh, please take them now and do not delay.
Nevertheless, the death of this friend has once again reminded us that there are things in this world that we can never understand and no matter how hard we try to comprehend, we will never even come close to understanding it. We find comfort in the fact that my friend died as a good person. The love expressed by family and friends is enough testament to this fact.
His close friends will miss him. His sister will miss him. His mom and dad will miss him. His fiance will miss him. We will all miss him.
For now, we will try to make sense of these things.
But should one of those fools who still don't want to pay us our hazard pay die today, I won't miss 'em. Suits them right.
He was the eldest of two siblings. His younger sister is also a good friend and a fellow Lasallian. Just like his sister, he was a very good human being. In the short span of time that I got to know him, I had the impression that he was a very good friend. We had a nice time in Davao when the entire CD team of the Yearbook went to have our R&R and submitted their raw data. He used to date a high school classmate and friend as well so we used to hang out once in a while. The last time I remember was when a group of us went to Campuestohan to hike and take a bath in the falls.
Now he is gone and for many of his friends, his death has come as a shock to everyone. I received the news when I was in Makati, homebound from Tagaytay. I could not believe it at first. He was too young to die. He was relatively fine and his facebook revealed that he was even having fun playing Mafia Wars.
During the funeral mass, I read the First reading and it was taken from the book of Wisdom. It was perhaps one of the most moving funeral masses I have ever attended. During the eulogies, I was moved the most by his sister's farewell speech. He was such a big loss to his family.
It made me thinking about how Life can be so unfair. Why him? Why this good young man? I mean, there are so many walking corrupt and evil people roaming the world, why not them first? Like the people in DOH still retaining our Hazard Pay. Why not them, Lord? Why not those greedy and selfish people who have nothing to do in the world except make other people's lives miserable? Why not them, Lord? Oh, please take them now and do not delay.
Nevertheless, the death of this friend has once again reminded us that there are things in this world that we can never understand and no matter how hard we try to comprehend, we will never even come close to understanding it. We find comfort in the fact that my friend died as a good person. The love expressed by family and friends is enough testament to this fact.
His close friends will miss him. His sister will miss him. His mom and dad will miss him. His fiance will miss him. We will all miss him.
For now, we will try to make sense of these things.
But should one of those fools who still don't want to pay us our hazard pay die today, I won't miss 'em. Suits them right.
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