Truly Immortal

To wait for death is to endure pain. To watch someone you love die is heartbreaking. And yet, it is innately the best.

How you ask? What possible good can come of it? An end. An end to torture, to pain, to suffering. But then, that is the sadness of it. The remembrance of a life of goodness, of fun, of love. Death is perhaps the greatest paradox of all. It is the end of life, yet we are to believe it is the end to the journey on which we go. And of course, why should we believe this? How can it be both? This is the logical question. But if there is one thing I have learned, it is that life is not logical. Humans are not logical. What is the meaning of life? Have you really ever tried to answer that question? My answer: Life is the journey of suffering. We must suffer. When we are told not to believe, we must believe. When there are crises, we must rise above them. We must be good. We must be true. We must be steadfast. And then, if we make it through all of this, and we are still good, then we truly attain immortality.

Of course, you must know I am religious. But I am not imposing my beliefs. However, you must know a story. When my grandmother did pass, most recently, her watch stopped at that EXACT time. You may call this coincidence. You may call this circumstance. But I call that, for lack of a better word, truth. Did it stop weeks before? It may have. But even that makes it all the more amazing. You may call it weird. You may call me crazy. But I tell you that I believe in God. I believe that there is a higher power; someone is guiding us.

And finally, if death, the most sorrowful event in all of humanity, has only one more goodness, it brings out who people really are. From sympathy to disdain, it shows good and bad. If someone is truly strong, they do not mourn, then scorn the fact that their loved one has been taken. They mourn, but remember everything about that person. Good memories present themselves. The strong mourn, but still press on, ever-remembering their lossed loved one. And they know that to remember is to keep that memory in their heart.

And that memory is truly immortal...