cycle through.

A funny world indeed. When i was still young, i remembered i was asking question about some electicity stuff, and my dad replied, "nothing in physics last forever. light bulb will spoil, battery will get exhausted" and with my further study in physics, perhaps i can add on to this, "matter decay, and even the smallest particle can be changed to other form of energy as permitted by heisenberg uncertainty principle". So, what is truely permanent? I not sure about the physical law, but i m sure that at least for the world we live in, nothing is and that of cause include the people around us. This year seems to be a funny year, witnessed quite a number of deaths, one of which is my grandma, and one is a secondary schoolmate. To be honest, i don't really feel much about my schoolmate death, but just set me into thinking.

As i was reading through all the comments given by his friend, i was thinking, if his death mean so much to them, why shouldnt they treasure him or even maintain a constant communication with him while he was alive. "盖棺定人“, i guess this will be an apt description of this scenario. Only, when people pass away, then we started judging them, in term of their contribution or their past actions etc. Then, the next question will be, is their emotion or sympathy overrated? There is a quote that says," A death of one is a tragedy, and death of many a statistics". How true. When people in impoverished country are dying of hunger, or even being brutally abused by local authority what are we really doing? I guess if people could redirect their sympathy for one death to the death of many i guess it will be much better. There are many ways to reach out and make a difference to the people out there that is suffering( Either in out own country or outside), and if the sympathy of us can be transformed into a self-justified way of helping them, it will indeed make a difference.

...when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.