When everything in a person's life is gone, ripped-out gone, it's not that you stay empty for so long, so you replace it with something else very quickly.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.
It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.
We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don't care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they've done wrong.
Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone.
When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.
The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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