The one truth that stays

Death. A sad constant that nobody escapes.

When people think about death, a tight chest, memories of the past, and names of people who are no longer with us come to mind. The closer somebody is to dying, the more anxious the people around become.

A slow death gives everyone around you time to prepare. The gloomy atmosphere will stay with you for your last years, months, weeks, and it will only get heavier in your last days.

A sudden death is not better for the ones around you either. One day, you are healthy, safe, and living your life. The next day, you are gone in an instant. All that talk about mental preparation goes to nothing. The sheer weight of knowing it is over just like this will have everyone on their knees, crying and refusing to accept that their dear one is no more.

Needless to say, death brings sadness to people. The further away it is, the more we postpone preparing for it, until it inevitably catches up to us and we still act shocked.

If that's the case, then why do we still find happiness in life? Everyone you know and love will one day suffer the same fate. They will be visited by death, and they will be given a timer. That is when things start to crumble. That is when they may try to fight, they may try to hide it, or they may go public with it. Whatever the course of action, nothing will get better. That is the point from where sadness becomes the second constant, and this sadness will only grow.

From the moment we are born, every second just takes you to that moment. Every second that passes gets you closer to death. Every second closer to death only brings more sadness.

You may not be there, but everyone will one day die. Why not cry for them now? Why ignore this fact? Why do we keep going out of our way to interact, to play, to love, and to give birth to new life, if at the end of it all, they will also leave this world being sad and miserable?

Why form bonds when you will only have to suffer from them? Why feign ignorance just to one day be presented with the very timer you had been ignoring?