Death can be so shocking sometimes. It can come out of the blue to scare you, bringing you closer to reality especially when its a death thats close to home. We seem to take people around us for granted. We don't realise that today they're here and tomorrow they might not be. A death in the family can always drive the point home that it can catch up with us when we least expect it. Two of my uncles have died in a span of less than a month. One of them died yesterday morning. He was out for a morning walk and got hit by a car. Imagine that this very man survived major heart surgery and recovered from it only to have his life taken away by a motorist. Ironic isn't it, surviving one ordeal only to be taken away by another. I cannot even try to put myself into the shoes of his immediate family that he leaves behind. Their loss would be too overwhelming to describe. It is so unfortunate that his family who took care of him post surgery so that he got better only to have him taken away by another misfortune. I'm sure he is in a happier place now but the people he leaves behind have a lot of grief to contend with.We must remind ourselves that the people we love and cherish will die one day or another but will we be prepared for that day when it comes? For death has no fixed time, it comes when it pleases, it can come when you least expect it and rob you of some one you love or someone you know. So don't forget to take the time to be in touch with the people you care about because you never know if the correspondence you had with them the last will be the last you'll ever have with them......rest in peace Uncle Stanley and I hope and pray that this loss your family has to bear will be eased.

xaries posted at 2:45 PM