Happy Birthday to me

Today is my birthday. Another chapter of my life is closed and the end is getting closer. And this is not a sad note on a birthday. This is just a reality check on how time and life has been handed to me.

As celebration may be expected by many and the wish of happiness is sent my way, I don’t really celebrate it in the way that people may think of. I took liberty of being lazy and actually almost forgot that today was my birthday.

The Voice of Death

Somehow, that is how I feel about the past few months that happened to me. The last straw was the news I received this afternoon. How I come up with the title is because that's how I see my recent life experience. I may be sad in writing this, but I am learning my lesson.

I understand death may be scary to some people. I accept death as a mere act of stepping from one room to another room with no turning point. So yeah, it takes preparation and it take courages to face the angel of death when time comes. And what do we prepare for its coming? How do we prepare ourselves in welcoming it? I am not about to answer those two questions though. It is a mere question to awaken our conscience in living this life.

So here is the story that unfolded in front of me.