Connecting with thoughts - My thoughts and Me

A few questions left unanswered, A few dreams left unfulfilled, A few hopes dashed, But life's unpredictable And strange are it's ways. That's what they always say When life's journey ends abruptly. For those are the ones To be pursued in world beyond All we can do then is to pray, that Peaceful be the journey into the world beyond

Death. Death is inevitable.  Change. Change is inevitable. Of the few things in life that are truly inevitable are death and change. Both are very closely associated. So much so that one impacts the other and how.  Things change. And they change in a way you are not accustomed too when someone really close to you passes away. Suddenly you have to think of life without this person who made your life or rather was the only reason why life existed for you. Suddenly you are facing life without the very person without whom you have never thought of life. This is change. Change that is inevitable and a inevitable which follows the other...death. (Just as I about to post this blog I realised I had in fact written a earlier post on the same topic,   posting that link as well  http://connectwiththoughts.blogspot.com/2011/05/on-deathwhat-really-changes.html  )

What changes after death? My mind wondered and I immediately said nothing. Nothing? How come?  Well, you continue to dress the way you used to. You continue to eat like you used to. You move around just the like the way you used to. You enjoy your moments of laughter and fun just like you used to. There are so many other things too that really do not change in way after a death. So? It's a perfectly rational answer. The one that is easily visible to eye and logically acceptable to mind. But that's just like the ocean that appears to be calm above and is full of life within. What really changes after the death of your near one is that when continue to dress the way you used to, he / she is not going to be there to appreciate it. When you sit down to eat he / she not is going to be there to persuade to have some more. When you move around he / she is not going accompany you any more. The underlying meaning of things which continue the way they used to be drastically changes. Th...