Death...That Mystic Destiny

Hadeel's sudden death has drastically changed my life. Not that I've never thought of death, nor that it never occured to me in one of those moments when I'm always left in a bewildered state of mind. I'm just like anyother human being; I tend to avoid thinking about that dark inevitable truth. I tend to reject the depressing idea the minute it hits my head. Why? Maybe because I keep telling myself that I'm just too young to die. The long life is still ahead of me. I have a list of dreams that I thought of since my childhood and I haven't accomplished yet. Death? Now? No. Only those old, sick people die. But it can't happen to me; I'm young, I'm healthy, I'm full of life.

Just like Hadeel, I always picture myself dying at an old age, let's say 70 or 80. Most probably, I would die peacefully surrounded by my beloved children and grandchildren. I bet Hadeel too had a similar image of her ultimate death, with that wrinkled face, that old weak body.

But I don't perceive death like that anymore. Actually, it is so strange, so ironic how we get easily distracted by life at large and tend to ignore that unavoidable path. Death, however, is only a phase in order to reach another world of eternity. Death is never the end, but only the beginning. But I just have no absolute guarantees that life won't stop at any minute, any second, any fraction of that second. I look back now and I see how I was living my life as if I will never ever die. How superficial, shallow sometimes I used to be. How I kept hunting for those same dreams of my childhood, hoping to conquer them, but not realizing that my last breath might be much closer to me. There were times when I simply fail to remind myself of the true essence and purpose of living. Now I have realized how life is too short, how everything can just vanish in a second. I need to prioritize my goals so that I can gain satisfaction and happiness in both this life, and that eternal one.

Minutes, hours and days go by. Are you proud and satisfied of what you have accomplished in your life so far?