Death is inevitable, as much as it might be a precariously avoided topic it is the harshest truth of reality. The mere summoning up of the word ‘Death’ has a dark and cruel feel to it. If the thought of death is to be projected into one’s mind, what is usually anticipated? The most likely outcome is as accurate as it can be; the most uncomfortable feeling of coldness and nothingness, most people’s worst nightmare. Do you observe the irony though? The most real thing in our life’s’ is the most unacknowledged element.

All my life I’ve been hearing about death knocking on other people’s door, some fell prey to it before schedule some on their due time. Most lived their whole life fearing it while a few welcomed it with open arms, possessing no fear at all. Up until my grandmother passed away I had not understood the meaning of death as being the eternal faith. I had only come across the philosophical meaning of death but now I’ve experienced the true candor of death.

I was there by her side, when she breathed her last. What I felt upon that time cannot be deemed as explainable. That evening she surrounded her family around her as she was prepared to be departed from this world, she held on to my hand gave me a faint smile and gently begin fading away into oblivion. The aura around her fading being was so shallow and empty, one cannot begin to fathom how empty and dark I felt. I felt as if she was taking the life from as well. That moment I was not familiarizing myself with my surroundings. Couldn’t feel anything, every part of my body down to my feet went numb. It was like she was taking me with her into the depths of barrenness. I felt suffocated; I gasped for breath but couldn’t seem to breathe right until the moment when one of the women next to me managed a cry. I was yanked out from the world of the dead and back into the living, breathing world. That moment I learned the true meaning of death and realized that it was everyone’s final destination and one we could not run from, rather one journey we should be prepared for.