The story of Hadeel, the blogger who went in a coma didn’t end as I expected…I was somehow assuming that the efforts in finding her a bed and praying for her return from her fellow bloggers would sum up in something beautiful and she would be back eventually and thank everyone on her blog with a heartfelt and impressive post…But then she passed away…I tried calling her father to express my condolences but his phone was turned off, and then I get to reflect on death, the end of the road for all the living, and how it would come unexpectedly to claim the most vivacious lives, they would disappear as if never existed…My demons were always old age and sickness and not having someone loving beside me on my death bed…But is death as ugly as we think of? a young lady sighs & cries on a TV show still haunt my memory when she called the show to inquire about her dead mother…She was still crying in despair as if it happened just now while her mother had passed away several months ago…The lady guest of the show soothed the girl and explained that death is a new journey and not as awful as we think of, she said it resembled transcendence and shouldn’t be thought of as an ending…It is really a mystic subject and no words can quite describe it’s true nature and consequences, The only lesson of death is that Life is short and we better make something worthy out of it, as for Hadeel, the blogger whom I never met but introduced to her story by her friends, I would say that a beautiful soul has just left us and we would terribly miss her loving & caring words…
On Life & Death…
May 17, 2008 · 3 Comments
Categories: Comments on People · Personal Thoughts
Tagged: Death, Life
3 responses so far ↓
Aysha // May 17, 2008 at 5:22 am
Thank you Hala for the positive thought… Death is mystic, and interesting how both the believers and non-believers use it towards their debate. There’s something particular about this sad event, that truly got me thinking.
In the past, if someone popular passed away they would be remembered for a while. If they have books, the books will be read by some, piled by others, but they too will have their lonely moments. However, in this case we have a real death the is accompanied by virtual survival. Hadeel virtually still exists on FB, Twitter, Email, Blog. There are all those doors that are still open, and since the providers of the services do not charge fees, the possibility of contacting her through them is open too…
Virtual reality as a more sophosticated and intellectual level of communication, wouldn’t it point in the direction that human beings as a far more sophosticated creation would have a higher/more complete access to one another?
That’s just me..thinking out loud!
Hala // May 17, 2008 at 11:42 am
Virtual Reality would definitely create the same effect as the ideas & philosophy, people would use the words & ideas and communicate with each others based on them, it may enlighten their existence and provide them with moments of clarity & joy, but the creators of ideology, books, blogs, etc…would not be there to witness that effect and rejoice on them…It’s sad all the way but of course, spiritual & intellectual guidance that can now be shared through the internet is by far the best thing a person can leave behind…
Tantor // January 4, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Another love story that transits life and death:
http://conprotantor.blogspot.com/2006/10/tell-maura-i-love-her_22.html