Death

Today a friend lost her cousin and another friend lost her grandmother. Though it is sad when someone leaves this life I truly believe that not only is the person relieved of worldly cares they carried but they find happiness in leaving them behind. I believe that while we grieve for them they grieve for us. Not in the sense that they miss us but that they wish we understood the great relief they feel and in doing so it would lesson our grief. Dying, I feel, is a graduation of sorts. A chance for the human soul to move onto a higher learning process...to evolve in greater ways than we can imagine. As with graduating high school or college, I feel we should celebrate this new opportunity for our loved one. Yes, we'll miss them. But we'll be with them soon enough and in the meantime we can learn from their life, their legacy...good or bad...and better ourselves and the lives of those we interact with. Who knows, perhaps if we celebrated ones passing we'd better live our own lives. Just a thought.