Sunday, October 10, 2010

Life's Brief Candle

Life is brief and fragile.
Who on earth can live more than 100 years? How fleeting life is.
I can never know when my last day on earth would be.
Or tell when a person will pass away.
Life, death, eternity.
The only thing that separates life and death is a comma.
The only thing that separates death and eternity is a comma.
A punctuation mark that indicates to the reader to pause briefly..just a short while and then, move on.
It isn't a full stop that separates these three.
And because it is only a breather between life and death,
Life is undeniably seen to be short and close to death.
And our bodies are just the shells of us which we would have to leave behind one day.
One day, we are healthy,
and by the next day, we might turn into white ashes and our family grieves.

If life is this short, then, we ought to be grateful for every new day and live life to the fullest.




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