A Sad News

As a child, I noticed that whenever my parents bought an live chicken to kill for an event in the future, I always found it a bit hard to enjoy it and this was simply because I knew it when it was alive. But if it was bought and killed at the market, then I had no problem consuming it.

The same thing applies to me when I find out that someone I know or someone close to a friend that I've heard about few days ago is dead, it tend to feel a whole lot personal, compared to someone close to a friend that I had no idea about or haven't spoken to before in my life. Basically what I'm saying is that if I had an idea of that person's existence and they're close to someone I know, I tend to get emotional when I hear about their demise compared to someone that I didn't know existed that may or may not be close to someone I know.

_{photo by Scott Rodgerson}

Well, two days ago, I had woken up a bit early to do some laundry, and while I was outside drying up those clothes, I had overheard a phone conversation of one of my neighbour's girlfriend, telling the person at the other end of the phone to make sure that someone else (the person they both were talking about) doesn't drink any soda because it would only make the situation worse.

She had gone further to explain to that person why she couldn't be home anytime soon due to school and work, then she had ended the call and walked back inside.

Fast forward to a day later, her boyfriend who also happens to be a friend of mine had come to sit beside me, and that was when he told me about his girlfriend's mother death. The news was so unexpected and very shocking to me that I immediately felt bad.

He had gone further to tell me that she had died of diabetes and that was when the whole phone conversation I overheard some few days ago started to make more sense. Apparently she was instructing her siblings on how to further manage her mother's situation not knowing that the woman was going to die the next day.

Knowing all of that made the pain a lot more worse for me because overhearing that phone call made it feel like I knew her, even if it was for a brief second.

Anyways I guess that's life and my prayers are with them.