Celebrating impermanence...

By Vichara


Our impermanence has become for some fodder for celebrations. While keeping someone’s existence in your heart after their death I often wonder when an anniversary of a sad or tragic event becomes an obsession and an igniting point of even more intense and sometimes irrational behavior. We know or have heard of people who mark the day when someone was gunned down, died from an accident from a drunk driver or perhaps some other less tragic way. While yes any way you lose a friend or a member of your family to death is sad and heartbreaking but what I find troubling is when a person’s life, existence and what they gave to all is overshadowed by the event of their death. I would think, and this of course is just my opinion, that there is a greater need to remember and celebrate what a person gave to us all in their lives than the conditions and results of their demise. Instead of celebrating or remembering the anniversary of someone’s death why not celebrate their lives and what they gave to us all on a daily basis in small ways.

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