10-9-10 Death
October 9, 2010
I saw a dead man today. A freshly dead man. Not sure if that is a good word to use. Newly dead? Just passed? Kind of a touchy subject. I have seen a dead body before, in a coffin at a funeral.
This man had just died. He was hit by a car. I don’t know this man’s story but I feel strangely connected to him. I saw him for less than a minute. Laying on the ground, eyes open, blood in a pool around his head. A flurry of questions rushed to my head after I passed his body.
1. Who was this man? Was he homeless? Will someone care that he is no longer here?
2. Why? Why God? I feel like that is the only person that could give me an answer. Why did he die that way?
3. Why was I there? Why did I see him? Sometimes I think we come upon things and have no idea how it will effect us in the long run but we know that it will change us. This is one of those times.
A lot of thoughts are running through my head. I may return to this place of mystery, of death and life.
