Post by CASALAOthe passing away of demis roussos, a famous singer in the 60's, means that the river of time keeps flowing. he will be missed by his old fans around the world.
of demis roussos's songs, my favorite one has to be RAIN AND TEARS, a new rendition of pachebel's canon in D. another similar song is LA MALADIE D'AMOUR.
http://youtu.be/UTdkDwyteYA
http://youtu.be/nMUsI2wufE8
Sorry, but the era ---- when Pericles was alive --- was a bit before my prime time, so I don't know who he was...
But, yes, I've been thinking about DEATH ---- that river of time ---- a lot lately, with my older parents and those from their generations starting to get ready to return to their ancestral lands in northern Laos and southern China...
But, to be more accurate, when older and elderly people die... people who have lived long and over-all good lives... when they die, to me, it is PART OF THAT RIVER OF TIME... it is part of nature....
It is only when children or young people... who have so much to see, to know, to learn, and to live for who die... both from diseases and from accidents.... it is when young people die that I take pause to ask Buddha, Jesus, Allah and his twin brother God why....
Why allow such innocent to die, when YOU could stop it?
Here, since you alluded to a singer or musician... take a look at this short video, by this young girl... just approaching her early teenage years, the most carefree and memorable years of every human's life, if we get to live through them, to go on to be adults...
Even though she was a total stranger, when I came across this video, I did shed some tears, with her parents, whom I am sure must have been devastated... to raise perhaps only one child and the child being so gift and beautiful... and one day, she's play the score for this popular show, DOWNTON ABBEY, and the next day, she was struck by a car and died....
It is deaths like these that impact me the most, as a human being... whether it's the death of strangers or those around me, they all impact me deeply...
Years ago, when I was living in Mira Mesa, San Diego, as I was going through my student teaching... there was a Chinese American woman who married a doctor, also living there in Mira Mesa, not from my apartment. Her husband died one day from a car accident, leaving her and their middle school son...
EXACTLY ONE YEAR AFTER, her son was also killed, by a car....
What kind of cosmic misfortunes must you have, in order to win such tragic lotteries like that, one after the other, wiping out your entire family, like that?