We will never say bye.

Have you ever thought of story telling your death? Well of course, that notion doesn't make sense at all. After all, if you are already a cold corpse buried 6 feet under the ground, then you can never ever tell the tale. Death is possibly one of those highlights, actually the final highlight of our lives. But it's the only thing that can never be part of those "so I live to tell the tale"-part because of course we are technically no longer living.

I'm not trying to be gruesome here. Recently, I've just read, seen, heard and been exposed to some things relating to it. And as I come to think of it, it's one of those topics I've never really given much thought or I've never mentioned it in all those blogs that I had. Not even in my hand written journals. Maybe it's a taboo to mention it and to be honest about it, I've been fortunate enough not to get to deal with it first hand.

But yes, what really happens after we die? I have to agree with a friend when he said that it's really nice to think about life after death and not just mere nothingness. I've recently read the book The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and it's actually pretty interesting to note that her narrator is a 14-year old girl who actually narrated how she died and how her death affected, changed, shook and restored the foundation of her family. It's true isn't it? That to simply put it, a death of someone close to us will definitely make and break us. And that this kind of loss is the hardest thing to deal with. It's true that with out these people our lives will never be the same again. Their loss could actually make us stray away from happiness. The mere memory of them could hurt us. We try to question God. And that we would definitely do anything if it's only possible to see their face again, to be with them again.

It's also interesting to note that each person has its own way of dealing with grief. Dealing with it comes with acceptance. Time still is the best healer of all times. And time will eventually come when their memory will put a smile in our face. And as the song of Mariah Carey goes, "We will never say bye".

After all, who said we should forget them?