December 2009
3 posts
Pre-Requiem
Death is an inevitable part of life. We experience death many times in our lives, through the loss of our loved ones and through our own eventual demise. It’s the most predictable, equalizing event of humanity; everyone will die. Yet it always takes us by surprise whenever it pops up in conversation or in actuality.
I spent Christmas in Los Angeles this year with my mother and death decided to...
love actually
I love this movie too. This was exactly what I needed!
yoonashin12:
“Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion’s starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don’t see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it’s not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it’s always there -...
Does it happen to anyone else?
that the Christmas season does anything but make you happy? I became nostalgic for my childhood, not because of all the presents or the trips that we took, but at my own ignorance and how incredibly happy I was at my ignorance.
Christmas and Thanksgiving now only serves to remind me what is missing instead of the intended effect of being grateful for what I do have.