Death is the loss of life. But death can mean a lot of other things too. It can be the end of everything you have gained, or if you’re lucky, maybe even the beginning of something better. To some it’s just a change, a change of physics really..your body composition changes, you lie under ground, decay for sometime and then turn into an invisible being and off you go, into another world or maybe if you like ours better, you’re most welcome to stay, please stay. ‘Cause sometimes it gets lonely.
What happens right after a person dies? Angels carry him away? Nah! Technology wins the race! The first most thing is spreading of the news of death. But the news is mostly associated with shock, which is then followed by grief. Grief I can understand. But why shock? Is it that you never thought death would touch people around you? Well boohoo, you should have thought. Always think bad, that way life can never slap you hard enough. Or perhaps you felt today was a bad day for dying? No day is good or bad, only people are.
But what if things get a little twisted. You get the news of death but the person dying hasn’t left yet. There’s no shock to the news, only grief and grief that tears you up everyday. Its like you’re sitting at a railway platform, holding hands, waiting for the train to come and separate you. You want to speak, but no words come out, there is no sound except for a weeping heart, your eyes are fixed ahead and you keep praying for the train to never come. But it comes any ways. Why I mentioned train, you may ask? Well simple psychology, when in pain, you regress to your childhood days. They comfort you. When I was younger, I traveled in a train, I remember sitting, looking out the window, laughing.
A train, containing unfamiliar faces, dragging itself very very slowly on its tracks, like its carrying the weight of the world. And the tracks, well, they have no beginning and certainly no ending in sight. You don’t ever see the driver, yet you trust him enough to help you find your way. Kind of like death, you don’t know when it’ll come or why, but you trust it and so very painfully it takes you away, leaving those behind in tears.
So, I am at that platform, I don’t know where it is, I’m sure not in this world.. ’cause I feel disconnected.