Now you see it, now you don’t!

"Now you see it, now you don’t!"– A famous tagline by Chipsmore came to mind as I went through the experience of losing a dear friend recently. It’s all still so fresh in my mind. It was a Sunday morning, when I got a call stating my friend’s demise. I personally found it hard to believe. I recall, as I was rushing to get dressed, I was hoping so much that this wasn’t true and that it was a mistake. I remember the journey to meet him, me and my boyfriend was hoping so much it was merely a prank. I remember the emotions I felt and the thoughts that were running through my head. “Is this really happening? Why? How did it happen? No, this can’t be happening. It has to be a joke”. These thought were haunting me the whole time. When we arrived at the mortuary, that’s where it all hit me and I broke down. I was speechless as it was then I realize, this was really happening. He was lying there, cold with neither a breath, nor a movement. I am still trying to digest the fact that our friend left us that day. Left us at very early stage of our lives and that he will not be there in the rest of our journey in this world.

Such a carefree guy he was. He lived his life to the fullest each day. He was a good friend, good son, and good family member to his relatives as well to his colleagues. He always made me smile; his nature was to always be there for those around him. Be it a friend, a family member, a colleagues or a person who he just met, he always had a way to make us all smile and have a good time with his very own style. I am sure God took him away for a reason. I’m guessing it is to make him one of the guardian angels to look after us. God knew he had the heart of a child, so pure and innocent and decided to take him away from this materialistic world to a better place. And even though he won’t be here with us in person, he will always remain in our hearts and prayer each step of our lives.

Sometimes we tend to take things and people around us for granted that we never realize that nothing in life is certain. Nothing at all is certain, but death. Yet we as humans take everything else for granted except for death. Death doesn’t look at age. Death comes by fate. Why do we care so much of our own lives, when it hurts more to see someone else we love go? Why can’t we just care for ourselves and our loved ones around just as much l. We can never bring back time, we can never bring back people from the dead, we can never unsay words that have been said, we can never change the past. However what we can do is to make a change today. To ensure that we are aware of our actions, to be certain of the things we say cause who knows, that may just be the last thing we say or the last time we meet someone.