A day of bad news...

Thu 02 July 09

Yup, me am still around...haha! Me am, slowly but steadily, .getting over the recent trauma & depression that me underwent in furtherance of the extended "father & son" issue.

Of course, that was achieved ( & better more peaceful sleep) with a little bit of help from a few tabs of "Upjohn 55" (from our understanding family doc)...if you know what that is. And yup, that's not what you think it was (by its name...haha!) but an "anti-anxiety" medication. Works like magic lo...practically slows down the brain's activity! Each tab ensures peaceful sleep throughout the night...

However, life as is, is not that good either. Why?

You see, me had tried to divert my attention & improve the mood (that had persisted the last few days) by leaving Lot 10 for nearby Giant Hypermarket for a so-called "breath of fresh air"? But it was not all "fresh" cos in the process, me got a whiff of some not-so-good news of fellow ex-colleagues...

Yup, a nice jovial guy he was when I was still working...my daughter even attended his wedding. But now, it seems that he'd lost a lot of weight and was even met in hospital whilst undergoing an operation. And yup, it appears he has the "Big C"...so common these days that it is no more shocking than to hear of someone having the flu. The big difference is that the mention of it, is like knowing that a death sentence has been imposed, kinda unjustly, on a nice good person! But who are we to say so?

My daughter, when so informed of that former teacher's condition, wrote in her sms reply that "Life is cruel... ". In response, me keyed in that "Life is not cruel. But that, with Life, there will inevitably be Death and that no one knows how or when one will go...one just has to accept..."

Of course, every one on Earth would wish for a long life and a peaceful, painless way to go. But who are we to have any say nor control over that, right? It's just one of those aspects of life that none of us have any control over...unless we are capable of practising or legally permitted to carry out "euthanasia"...mercy killing of oneself painlessly.

Once upon a time, me & a fellow colleague tossed about the idea of keeping some "cyanide" (that we had access to at that time) so that we can pop it into our mouths when the time was "right" to end it all. A few secs and that's it! However, upon further discussion, it was agreed that it would be a futile exercise when that time really came cos we might not even know where we'd kept that substance nor know what it was for! Don't you think so? Ha ha!

Well, besides the above-mentioned misfortune that had befallen that ex-colleague, there was also news of one who had left us a few weeks ago...younger than us...also another victim of the same ole "Big C". Info was that his liver was the target. May you rest in peace, LFL! Our most sincere condolences to his family and all who knew & loved him...

What's worse is news of that of a younger colleague who had tumours in his brain area but thankfully, those tumours had been successfully removed. And from info updated by other colleagues, that friend is doing ok & fine now. We do wish him all the very best for a clean bill of health for the rest of his life...

All that goes to remind us that Life as is, is truly fragile & short...sometimes shorter than we may think or feel that we have. So let's be happy & not let any unhappy, unpleasant happenings affect our remaining days.

As another ex-colleague that we met yesterday echoed what practically all retirees have understood & accepted...simply that every day we get to live through is a BONUS!

Let's enjoy our bonus for today!!