somebody

Everyone knows it's something that'll happen, sometime. Nobody is immune. But when it happens, it hits like a million bricks. Death and dying is something no one can fully prepare for.

Losing someone you love is definitely one of the worst things to have to go through in life. The tears, the 'what ifs' and the countless recollections of memories. Did you say you loved them enough? Did they know how much they meant to you? Could you have done anything differently so they'd still be here right now?

When you are reading the newspaper or watching the news, you hear of people dying all the time - but it doesn't hit home. Somewhere, people are grieving for that person. For some people, that person was their world and now they are gone. That person is always somebody's somebody.

Sometimes when we know someone who dies, we seem to get a new lease on life. We tell everyone we love them before we leave the house in the morning. We do things we never would do. Because who knows when it'll be our turn to go. But eventually, people move on and go back to their ways.

When you know your time is going to come very shortly, you find yourself making lists of things you want to do before you're gone. But why aren't we doing those things when we're not sick or overwhelmed with grief? Why aren't you pursuing the things you've always wanted to do, right now?

It's something no one likes to talk about. Death and dying. And people might call me pessimistic for saying that it'll happen one day to everyone. But instead of worrying about dying and death, you should be enjoying living and life. Don't waste any moments with someone you love. Don't waste your life holding resentment, hate or jealousy. Live the life you want to live, right now. You don't have to wait for anything.