DECEMBER 2024: FROM LIFE TO LIFE: KEY LESSONS FROM THE DEPARTED
Lightness mingles with heaviness as I delve into this quite unfamiliar discussion but I shall labor in good faith to give an answer to the question: What Is Life? Three facts remain undisputed that each of us: Was born (past) ; Is alive today (present) and; Will be gone someday which is the lighter of saying will die (future) . Over the past fourteen years, I have gone through the experience and I am still overcoming the pain of losing five members of my nuclear family (My biological father and four of my brothers). What amazes me about their demise is that each of them has/had a clear birthday/date/day they were born and a clear death day/date/day they died but it is hard to trace or tell a story about their entire day-to-day life. All I have are memories of what we shared in their lifetime; just a small percentage, I could say, of their lives. The rest remains very personal and goes with them. They knew (and know better in the next life) what they experienced and th...