i've just finished The Fault In Our Stars, a book that features cancer and two 16 year old teens(a guy and a girl). The unexpected happens, like how Augustus had a recurrence of his cancer, and end up as a sick, dying youth, the opposite of what happened a few months before. just because you've been cancer free for a long time, doesn't mean that it won't come back. death is unexpected, something everybody and everything on earth can't escape from. everyone is bound to die one day. someday, nobody would even remember who Beyonce is.
i've started to think. what are funerals for? for the dead to appreciate from above, or for the living to remorse over the dead. why do people cry over ill and dying people? is it because they are afraid of "death? or is it because the person is someone dear?
in the book, Augustus and Hazel Grace decided that "okay" would be their "always". it's a special thing between the both of them. but the fact that a word as insignificant as "okay" could be a magical word that connects them really is something else.
i wonder, if i would have an "always"/"okay" with my loved ones. it feels like an oath, to pledge to be together, forever.