life or death

No matter how many times you see it or hear the word death it still comes as a shock to you. there are some people you see everyday and expect them to be there for ever. And when one day they are not there it comes as a great shock. Mom told me today of a man we saw every month at the bank. He was the person who opened my first bank account. She told me that when she didnt see him at the bank and enquired about him she was told that the gas heater in their house exploded at night and he along with his wife passed away in the explosion. Their small daughter is burnt and no one knows what will become of her, the eight month old son was spending the night at his grandmothers and survived. innalillah he wa inna alaihe rajioon. nothing can prepare us for such news. A friend said that life is so weird. in one place people are laughing and going on with their life and at another people are mourning at the same instance knowing that their lives would never be the same again. But then again that is the beauty of life. In all its happiness and sorrows we live it and just as quickly we go away, never to return.