The Best I Could
“Sometimes, they’re told after the beginning. People are born.
People die. People exist in the in-between. It’s funny the things we learn in our darkest hours, when we feel like we’re dying, but we’re not. Maybe if Death was a person, he’d say something like, “What’s so important about me? What is it about me that causes people to disappear from themselves? What is it about me that confuses them so much they forget who they are in the first place?”
Death is a friend and an enemy, a beginning and... an end. We are either comfortable with him or we’re not. I think that’s where our lowest moments lie. In that place where we’re trying to decide which it is: comfortable or intolerable.
People avoid Death. When confronted by him, they spout off condolences and leave because they fear him. They fear Death’s face. They fear people who have been touched by him.
Death is life’s most poignant author. Because when Death finishes a story, the characters left standing are the ones who were meant to stay.MoreLess
People die. People exist in the in-between. It’s funny the things we learn in our darkest hours, when we feel like we’re dying, but we’re not. Maybe if Death was a person, he’d say something like, “What’s so important about me? What is it about me that causes people to disappear from themselves? What is it about me that confuses them so much they forget who they are in the first place?”
Death is a friend and an enemy, a beginning and... an end. We are either comfortable with him or we’re not. I think that’s where our lowest moments lie. In that place where we’re trying to decide which it is: comfortable or intolerable.
People avoid Death. When confronted by him, they spout off condolences and leave because they fear him. They fear Death’s face. They fear people who have been touched by him.
Death is life’s most poignant author. Because when Death finishes a story, the characters left standing are the ones who were meant to stay.MoreLess
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