a love lost

How do you cope up on losing someone? Breaking up with someone is too much pain but what if death comes in between? No hurting can ever describe when losing a love one by death. I must admit Ima (my dad’s mother) died last March 1998 and looking back that’s already 10 years ago and yet I’m missing her so much. Her memories always linger. I thank god for having her in my life. Growing up with her was so memorable not only the boxes filled of goodies from Japan every now and then that she sends us but the love and care she gave to me and my brother was the best. Sleeping with her every night, her hugs and kisses. Waking up hearing her pray, and then she will tell me to wake up and eat breakfast or go walking with her. One fond funny memory that I have of her was when she was curling my hair which I love but my mom and her would argue because my mom would love to have my straight. She left us a lot of recollections which I can tell my future kids about it. My tatang (my dad’s father) I had the chance to know him just for a few years because he died early but my mom always tell me that he was the one who makes me fall into sleep when I was still a baby and he was the one who threw me my first birthday party. Growing up with my grandparents is a gift from god because the love they give is twice as much that parents give but I’m not saying that my parents love me much less. Hehehe. Thank you Ima and Tatang for the love you gave me. I wouldn’t be me if it wasn’t for your love and care. This year was the happiest and saddest as well a lot of love ones died, Apung (mf best friend’s grandmother), My friend TJ who died in his sleep last July, My Bapa Lito and My Uncle Nanding just this August 14, 2008. He is also a very nice person very cheerful, living life to the fullest. Thank you God for giving me the opportunity to serve him during his stay at the funeral home for 3 days. It was tiring but it’s ok because it was the last that I will see him. There’s nothing we can do about death some say it is a celebration of life the person had once. For the people left it’s another episode to get over with and move on. Its not the end of the world when some one dies but really it is very hard to forget the love and happy memories we shared with them. Let’s just make sure that we love and cherish each other so that by the time “our time comes” we won’t have any regrets or any ill feelings with our love ones.