Deathless Way

Posterity is a way to become deathless. As one passes on one's genes through heredity, one's genetic traits manifest and leaves a genetic map on another human being even after one leaves this ephemeral world. It adds color and spice to make life meaningful. What is originally ephemeral becomes eternal as it leaves an imprint of one individual on another, like a fossil that speaks of what existed in the past.

After three days of a get away in Laoag City, I came back to Manila with the surprise of the loss of a person dear to me in the persona of my best friend's grandmother. Death naturally comes to all of us. But whenever it strucks us, whichever the situation may be, whatever the age of the person involved, the hole of emptiness that it leaves on the living does not change the depth of the pain that it etches in our minds and hearts. The passing away of a person seemed surreal to us. Most of us know that it can strike anytime, but only a few prepares for it. The pain of separation stems from our attachment to the people that we live with and meet in our lives.

The steps of the grieving process don't come easy. Some people may cope better than others. For those who have difficulties, a part of them eventually dies with the dead. For those who have more enlightened minds, the acceptance happens at a faster rate. But still, the sting is there. The pain remains. It would just really depend on how one copes.

"There is no easy way to mend a broken heart." But life goes on. And it continues with one's children and grandchildren.