Christmas Revisited

This Christmas reminded how fragile life is, and how in an instant the plans you have can become the plans you had. Things change for one reason or another and sometimes they change forever. And that's life. 

We're born with one single guarantee, and that guarantee is that one day we will die. 

And the scary part is that we don't know when that day will come, but that's just how it is. We can't know everything and honestly would you want to know? I guess there are certain occasions where we would, but more often than not I think death is one part of life that is better left in the dark.

When it strikes we feel robbed for so many reasons. We ask ourselves what we could have done to prevent it? What if this? What if that? 

And in almost every single case the answer is that there was nothing you could do to prevent it. 

And that isn't fair. 

But when death strikes you have to trust that there will be people there for you. To comfort you, to cry with you, to listen to you, or just to sit with you. 

 I promise that somebody will always be there for you. 

Death is, sadly, an inevitable part of life. It's the part most people fear, and it carries the most uncertainty along with it. 

To be frank, death is life's ugly tag-along. It's what makes life scary, but it's also what makes life so precious. Because without death we'd have no clue just how incredible life is. 

So here's to life and it's many wonders.  

“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.” -Socrates

NP: The Scientist- Coldplay