Phone Call: Mr. So And So Passed Away

Phone Call: Mr. So And So Passed Away

Suppose there was no good, kind person to deliver us such a phone call, we wouldn’t have this headache of torturing ourselves to visit and say our condolences, wearing a sad, sorrowful face, sit, looking as though lost for a very long time. When one wants to be good, visit him or her when he/she was still alive and healthy, not when he/she has passed away.

How could I ever feel sorry, when I almost never saw him. It was different when Foxy died. I, we, our family mourned silently. We missed her as she was so very near, so dear to us. Every day I embraced her and she slept with me, even more than a human being. Why couldn’t we, the whole world silently sorrow as when Princess Diana died without having to visit her?

Suppose one of our loved ones passes away, I wont have an ad about it or trouble my self to inform my people as they never could feel, imagine such a loss. No consoling, comforting words, sermon whatever could efface this. Moreover, I certainly couldn’t stand seeing people acting, feigning to be very sad.

For a loved one there’s no compulsion. We come willingly without having to say “We’re so Sorry”. No one needs to know it. So comments si upik when she got a phone call telling her, some uncle passed away.

Foxy was buried in our garden. So she’s still near us. Si upik silently wept, cleaned the earth of fallen leaves, planted some plants and laid some flowers on her grave.

May 2000

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