Friday, May 18, 2007 Y 9:21 PM
Got to know from a colleague that one of my colleague, Mr L's daughter passed away on Thursday. I was really shocked to hear that, although I had friends that passed away when they are young. I never expected someone closed to us to lose his child, and even more shocked to find out that she contracted flu and passed away as her body was too weak to handle the viral attack. I heard that she was really weak since childbirth and have always been falling sick, reminded me of myself because I always fall sick too, but I'm still healthy and strong and alive.
She's so young, like around my age only, had just been converted to Catholic, looking forward to life and religion and then, she's gone the next moment. It feels even worse to lose a child than to lose an elderly, when you know that you will never see your child grow old, settle down, be there for you when you are old and frail and sick, be at your funeral. It feels painful to hear my Mr L still trying to laugh when he was talking to LS about it but I know deep down, he must be really upset.
It's now then I realise why he always buy herbs for me, buy medicine for me, treat me to nice food and stuff, because I realise that he finds similarites between his daughter and myself.
Life is so unpredictable and fragile, one moment you live it, the next it's gone.
