Reflection on tragedies, death and terminal illness using the analogy of food that is inspired by my conversation with Gabe earlier today.
Bad food or good food. It is part of the experience in eating.
We can’t always escape eating bad food. However this does not mean we stop eating altogether after tasting some bad ones.
Maybe the bad food enhances the good ones and make it truly superb.
Likewise with life.
We can’t always escape the tragedies that befalls human being. Alongside with the good in life, we also have the bad. Do we then throw away life just because some bad happen? That is foolishness.
The bad is bad. It is often painful. However, I think it is as we experience the sorrow of this life, we begin to truly understand the heights of the joys life offer.
The bad in life is also a faint whisper that reminds us that life was never meant to be like that at the start. Even as we shed our tears right now, we are reminded that one day all tears will be wiped away and things will be made right.
We await in hope for that day to come.
