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| The Fairy's Funeral by John Anster Christian Fitzgerald |
It's both alarming and amusing to me that I'm doing this. However, at the same time perhaps it's a good thing. Really what I ought to do is tell the people how I feel about them in person. Perhaps thinking of their eulogy will help me do that. Not in the immediate future though. For now I'll just continue keeping my feelings to myself. One day, if you're lucky, I'll tell you your eulogy in person. I suggest staying alive for a pretty long time though. It'll be a while before I have the courage to tell you.
I sometimes find myself eulogizing my friends and family in my head. And you're right, it does tend to focus the mind on what's really important and help figure out how we really feel about these people. I may never explicitly tell someone their eulogy, but it often does change the way I act toward them once I have a better idea of what they mean to me and how much I value them.
ReplyDeleteI think you ought to read The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. It's a young adult novel in which the main characters are teenagers with cancer. The idea of eulogizing someone who's still alive shows up in the story. I'm glad the book was published this year because I feel like having read it helped me deal with my brother's cancer, and the fear of losing the people I love.