Death greeted her with itself
By emptychair
@innertalks (23742)
Australia
August 23, 2017 12:07am CST
My mum's old friend was found dead in her chair, this morning, alone, in her house. She was ninety-three years old.
Death lives around love's corner, always approaching love with itself, but when love sleeps with itself, death can be ready to move in, if we are ready not to come back.
This is what happened here. The old lady's husband died just before last Christmas. She was ready to go too, it seems.
It was a shock for my mum, who takes her shopping every Thursday.
It was a shock for her daughter, who found her.
Is death ever peaceful?
Love is ever peaceful, and death is peaceful, when it leaves together with love.
When it operates on its own though, because we have become resentful towards it, we live then, an encroaching death already, because we do not live within love, anymore.
Is death a part of life, so we need to experience death in life, to fully experience life?
"Even death has a heart."
Markus Zusak, an Australian writer, said this in his acclaimed novel, "The Book Thief."
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
23 Aug 17
some couples are so entwined one follows the other. it was nice of your mother to take her out every week. i guess the hard part would be not being able to say goodbye and i love you.
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@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
23 Aug 17
Yes, my mum is also old, at 86. She still drives her car around. She used to take the old lady out to lunch with her sometimes too, or to the doctor, or to get her hair cut.
She was no relation to us. She was one of my mum's close-by neighbours, although she lived a street or two away from my mum.
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