doreen peri wrote:I didn't know either of them very well but that's not the point.
You don't need to know them well, it's the wake up call they are carrying, that we all know, far to well.
I had two "friends" last summer, I call them friends, but they were people I knew from school, one of them I couldn't stand, so I felt like a hypocrite when I attended his funeral, only to find the church was packed with fellow hypocrites.
It was kind of weird, cuz the other guy that died, he was a nice guy, and apart from me, only his family attended the service.
It felt kind of wrong to me, how could someone that no one liked, fill a church, and a good guy slip away, almost unnoticed?
Anyway, I've managed to ramble here, the point is, or the point I was going to make is, that I entered the summer as SuperMan, I could fly, I was invincible, I was going to live forever, and then a couple of weeks later I was but one small grain of sand on the beach of life.
It kind of openned my eyes, it was a big wet slap, across the face, from the gods, a wake up call, that I was determined to take notice of, and that was going to change my life, except a few weeks later I was slowly slipping into my cape and tights again.
I guess I'm still young enough, to see forever in front of me, I'm young enough to be immortal, so these things jolt me, but don't derail me from the track, yet.
I guess as we get older, and the path in front of us gets shorter, each jolt seems that much harder, and it takes that little bit longer, to become immortal again.
But, young, or old, male or female, black or white, death doesn't discriminate, and when he comes calling, he causes us all to stop and pause, and question our own mortality, at least for a while.