An Old Friend!

Today I had the pleasure to meet a very dear old friend, and will always be dear ... The good thing with old friends, you don't need to break the ice and start over, you just catch from where you left like you see each other every day. Our time was not much, yet rich ... we simply touched each other. Of course we talked about our lives, and we realized -not for the first time- that life is ugly. King Solomon was right "... For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity..." Ironically, people live as if he was wrong for a while, they even try to tell their children life is rosy ... Unless you have a strong reason for living, life is utterly painful and worthless ... We should teach our children the true face of life and we have to answer the question "if life as you say so painful and ugly, why we want to live and why do we seem attached to it and in every action we try to postpone death!!"
True when winds in your life blow and havoc spreads, and when tears fails to relief the pain till you beg for death and you can't have it, at these times Solomon's wisdom seems unquestionably true. However, when winds rest and the sun shines again and flowers in your life blossoms again after a time when you believed there will be no more sun and flowers, you start to get attached to life again, and again you get deceived by the camouflaging face of life ... Now I realized that good times are not made for us to love life and get attached to it, they are simply to sweeten and somewhat relieves the hideousness of life, to help you fulfill your reason for living, to help you walk the road till you're granted the sweet release of death ...