Sunday, December 24, 2006
A quiet ChristmasJust came back from a funeral...
(Yes... Today's Christmas Eve...)
Uncle Brian's dad (Uncle Bob) died on Friday morning...
He died of old age. He was already in a stroke 5 years ago and was staying in a home. Suffering from contemporary memory loss too.
12 years ago, my maternal grandma died...
To me back then, i didn't really know what had happened.
Why were the other family members so in grieve?
And what were the processions and the crying at the crematorium all about...
A good fren of mine in secondary school also left us, at the age of 16.
He was bright, suave, aspiring, inspiring too...
A head prefect, a commander in our school's NCC unit, a leading student & a great friend. I'm sure he was a great son and brother too.
It appeared that he was facing stress, placing expectations from people and himself on him that he decided to jump from one of the HDB flats outside our school.
I was in shocked when I heard the news.
But death never hit me until years later.
Probably when I was 18.
When I realized, I'd suddenly had lost them.
We could be advancing together in these years...
But they were never there.
This time, it hit me immediately that Uncle Brian had lost his father...
A man who brought up a child through hard times, fed him and gave him education and all the things that he could provide for his son to have a fruitful life.
I teared...
How painful would it be now... that every christmas season, Uncle Brian and his family will come to remember Uncle Bob in this way...
I gazed into the coffin, as Uncle Bob lies peacefully.
I placed my flowers in...
There were no words i could find to confort Uncle Brian...
I was in tears too.
In me, I was very grateful for God, and for Uncle Bob to have brought up Uncle Brian so wonderfully. And to be a great man for God.
All I could do, was to give Uncle Brian a hug...
This funeral wasn't just a normal funeral.
It was a special funeral.
A meaningful funeral.
I felt God's presence...
I felt as if he was whispering to me...
"
Life is short, Be nice to your love ones while they are still around, Don't waste time away"
Now, Christmas marks a joyous occasion, and also a reminder to treasure our love ones.
because you make me feel special.
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7:23 PM;
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