When Death Becomes Trending

WHEN DEATH BECOMES TRENDING

For the last few days, I have been made aware of the deaths of either people I personally knew or someone almost everyone knew! It gets me to ask "what is going on? And who could be next?" It first came quite saddening when my girlfriend who was away at work learned the passing of her grandmother due to cancer. The news struck her with the good old memories she had had with her; weeping at the work place was inevitable. Then, shortly after a day or two, I got a phone call from a friend in manila who was updating me with his business whereabouts but managed to bring up another news of death. This time, an 18 years old Mass Communication student girl, with whom my bestfriend and I used to have business dealings in General Santos City was brutally murdered and was dumped in the bushes away from the city. The horrifying incident came to people in beyond comprehension, some would not seem to accept it, while most of them exude their faith that at the end of the day, It was God's will. Most recently, I was on Facebook when people started posting news about Tado's death, a celebrity along with other artists whose bus he was on came running off the road, crushing down off the cliff. There was clearly no way these people could have known what was to come because it was a darn accident! This news had come after my awareness brought on from a friend with whom I was chatting on the net that another friend from the company I used to work for was gunned down while he was doing the laundry. I remember, back in the days, I had had few instances of exchange of greetings with this person. It is prudent to say that it should not have happened, how utterly difficult to even consider the mighty wisdom from a saying that "something good at the end is going to come out."



I believe death is as natural as waking up in the morning,but it becomes weird or rather alarming when all this is happening to people you know in what seems to be like a series of continuous events, all in a certain short period of time.



My stance on this matter leaves me to stare off, thinking, that with life's promise of full abundance, of the possible acquisition of infinite knowledge and of the world's ultimate potential, the magnitude of the abrupt realization of death becomes a sudden, and apparent reminder that everything has its own limitations.