It's funny how we humans think... take for example how we fret when we feel that we are getting older. Yet we are so happy to look forward to our birthdays, to a New Year, to a Christmas and to the many appointments that we make in the following days, weeks and months. Many don't realise that if there is one thing that is certain from the time you are born into this world, it is the fact that the clock is ticking and you'll be getting older. For many getting older is associated with wisdom, growing up, adulthood, parenthood and even retirement. But what we don't look at is the fact that it also means you are that much nearer to expiry... or simply put, you are a step closer to the grave. I been to so many wakes and send-off ceremonies that I could easily play back the memories at these sorrowful events.
I have been planning trips to this and that place, planning to buy this and that thing some date in the future and when I paused to think, I thought how funny life is. I have gone this far and yet I am looking farther ahead assuming that everything else will remain the same. Not so, as our body will tell us. Suddenly that flight of stairs become a hill climb. Or that hop across the drain becomes a leap. Your legs just won't move or your joints aren't willing to hold on to your body.
Guess I won't be able to discuss this freely with my friends; many people understandably do not wish to look at the other side of life and they are just optimists by nature. I will be labelled as morbid if I talk about expiration of life. All Soul's Day is just slightly over a month away. The young ones will be gearing up for that Halloween party and the retailers will bare all their wares for those who need a new costume or one that is more frightening that the one worn last year. I laughed when I see them all dressed to look like ghouls and I thought indeed when their time comes, they may ask: Oh dear... how do I get out of this and wind back the clock?
