Summary: I interviewed my mother and my father about the topic caring for the dead. I asked them both one question: "What do you think when you hear the term care of the dead. At first, my parents didn't know what I meant by that term, and I had to explain it to them. When the understood, they couldn't stop talking about their thoughts on the care of the dead. one thing that my mom said was "you have to move on, and focus on the living. When your dead, your dead. So you have to move on."
Analysis: My parents agreed with everything each other said during this interview. What my mother had said earlier, about letting the people who died go, and focusing on the living made a lot of sense. I thought about it, and I thought about the term "moving on". They also said that people who dwell on family loses, could possibly cause a perfectly good family to fall apart. The way I interpreted what they said, was by picturing a young boy who could never forget the death of his father. His father was the boy's only role model left, and he felt he had lost everything. keeping this much anger and sadness bottled up inside can cause someone to explode, and a sudden change in attitude and personality. Becoming a "different person" may not "click" with other people, and when something doesn't click, there is bound to be trouble. That is how I helped myself understand the point that my parents were trying to make, and how the scenario plays out as a possible real world tragedy. Families falling apart. That is why letting someone go is a hard thing to do, but it is respectable in a way. You aren't forgetting the one you loved, and at the same time relieving yourself from the stress.
i agree people should let go of the people who pass away and that focusing on yours and other living peoples lives is more important. plus to me dead people are just bodies with no life in them they aren't your uncle or grandmother or something like that they're just the body that your uncle or grandmother or something like that embodied.
ReplyDeleteMoving on? I am not entirely sure what that feels like since i have never really experienced a death and have never been in a funeral. What i enjoyed most was that connection towards family tragedies. I know that is certainly true because i have seen it a lot in movies. Also, when my great grandmother died my grandmother would beat herself up over it. It was painful to see her suffer like that. Although i think that one should keep in mind that being born leads to death but its what you do in between to make it worth living.
ReplyDeleteTo improve you should make it more descriptive. Maybe add more of the interview and some personal experiences. And small grammatical errors as well.