emptiness essays

Death is the only certainty we have in life since we are born. When it happens is what we do not know. Life exists because there is death, and death exists because there is life; one does not exist without the other, they go hand in hand together. Life and death are a continuum.

“If we don´t grieve what we miss, we are not praising what we love. We are not praising the life we have been given in order to love. If we do not praise whom we miss, we are ourselves in some way dead. So grief and praise make us alive” (Prechtel, 2015, p.37).