A family who are close friends suffered a terrible tragedy last week. The wife/mother in the family was visiting her son in California and by a bizarre stroke of nature as she was out for a walk/run, she was hit by a car.
Accidents are terrible, no matter where or when they happen but when you are miles away from your homeland, somehow the pain is doubled, sorrows are tenfold and you feel alone regardless of how many calls you receive from well-wishers.
The lady hit by the car was a really nice person with a great heart. She passed away yesterday surrounded by her son and her husband who flew from India to be with her. That must have been a VERY long flight. When I heard the news I was taken back 2 years when another one of our close friends passed away suddenly before we had a chance to say goodbye.
This is the fifth time in recent memory that some one close to me personally or in my family has passed away when I was in the US and unable to be there. This time it even happened in the US but a different coast means I can only offer respects personally when I go back home.
As I did that day, here are some quotes on a dark matter:-
“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character Would you slow down? Or speed up?”
- Chuck Palahniuk
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.”
- Author unknown
Below are reposts from the archives:-
For certain is death for the born
And certain is birth for the dead;
Therefore over the inevitable
Thou shouldst not grieve.
- Bhagavad Gita (250 BC – 250 AD), Chapter 2
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come,
we are not.
- Epicurus (341 BC – 270 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
