Why? Did you ever wonder? Why
people gather when others die? Why people feel they should?
"It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives
intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else,
and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives
are changed.
"You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on
earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When
lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that
you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not.
We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One
withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.
people gather when others die? Why people feel they should?
"It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives
intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else,
and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives
are changed.
"You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on
earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When
lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that
you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not.
We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One
withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.
( Mitch Albom )
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