A Way A Lone

	For someone no longer here

“Longevity can only be reached by becoming old” - Someone said...
very cleverly..! Becoming old is certainly not the most pleasant 
aspect of our life, but this process might not be only a negative 
one  - No matter how we deal with our ageing process, one fact 
frightens us probably most of all: The older we become, the more 
often we must part with friends, relatives, parents,  and many 
other people who have crossed our path... As the number of the 
years we have lived increases, equally the number of people 
we knew, diminishes...

This is very obvious, but still it is strange to realise, that our 
lives become richer and poorer simultaneously. It is never sure 
what the old age will bring us..?! Adulthood and wisdom, or misery 
and senility..!? But sometimes (when God is not around), we might 
experience strange assurances, that we have not lived in vain and 
that our life had some sort of purpose, and that our short stay on 
this small planet might have somehow contributed to the irrational 
existence of the universe... or to its destruction. The question of 
what is important and what is negligible - will accompany us 
practically from “The womb to the tomb”, and luckily, it will never 
be answered. Our assessment of what is positive and what is 
negative and our ability to manage these contradicting forces, 
influences our wellbeing, health and happiness in the most 
essential way...

The “departure” of someone, who was close to us, is always an 
important experience. It can be happy, tragic or devastating or 
anything else. It can become a moment of freedom, misery, 
enlightenment or disaster. With other words, we can understand 
it as positive, negative or just be indifferent to it... But most 
probably it will have a lasting effect on us. We have to live 
with the dead until we die... This might sound a little strange, 
but in my eyes it is not - I feel, that I am living and dying - 
simultaneously and constantly - from the very beginning until 
the very new beginning...
								
					Jiří Kylián - The Hague, July 26, 2011