11.18.03
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mark’s uncle joe died this morning.
isn’t it amazing how life sometimes acts like a movie, and on the day of someone’s death the sky is gray and it’s raining and the world seems to be mourning the loss? then you snap back to reality and realize that people die on happy days, sunny days, snowy days, and everything inbetween. nature doesn’t put on a show for one individual or provide poetic justic to the death of one person, but it sure seems that way sometimes.
he died after a fairly short battle with cancer, and this death clearly has brought mark back to a dark place he was in when his aunt, and then his mother, died several years ago. i’m not really sure what to do, because i haven’t really had to deal with the death of someone that i’m close to yet. i’m not sure how to console, how to make someone feel better, how to show sympathy properly. all i know is that i want to help in whatever way i can. i’m just afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing. it seems that everyone around me has gone to countless wakes, and i don’t even own something appropriate to wear to such a somber event.
all of this going on obviously has me thinking of my own mortality and the lives of those around me — wondering who will go first, who will survive, who will be taken by cancer, who will get hit by a car, and who will live to be 100. life is such a strange and delicate thing. one moment you’re talking to someone, and the next moment they’re gone.
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