Most people will perceive that eternal life means living the immortal life, which means living in this world forever. Because of that thought, many stories, be it short stories, novels, films or just words of hearsay coming down from generations were discussing about the secret of living an immortal life. Hence we come across Count Dracula or even the recent box office movie, Twilight which deals with vampires. Both were about characters that can live forever in this world. Much to that, we never think the other way around about eternal life.
Today, it struck me like a hammer on the head that living an eternal life could possibly means the death. This may sound gloomy comparing to the former option, but I accept it as my version of truth about immortality. As far as I know, there is no single person in this world that has live forever. Yes, beside the ghost, and even the ghost is not the living human. If so, for the person who believe there is life after death, the place that we will live forever is the 'world' after our death, the next 'world'.
By the way, all the nonsense above is just to point out that during the past weeks there were many death happened amongst us. Some of them had made a mark in their life as a person in a family, a nation or even to the world. There were amongst others MJ, Marwa El Sherbiny and the latest was yesterday, Yasmin Ahmad. I would like to share my sympathy with the families of the deceased who were left behind. The emptiness of losing a family member will never recovered, not even by time. It may heals but the scar will remains.
Thus, in memory of the loss one we shall always need to understand that they just leave us from this temporarily world. And they are now living their life, as happy as we can pray for, in the eternal world. They are waiting for us to join them later when the time have arrived for us. In the mean time, live our life to the fullest.
"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” Pericles
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