Six Feet Under

Very few TV shows can do what SFU has done for me...

Lately, i have been thinking about DEATH alot, i know its a morbid and dark subject but lately its just been on my mind, when i was sick this past week, i actually felt as though i would have died and was scared of the fact. Alhamdulillah, i am fine.

A friend asked me what i thought Death was, and i simply said inevitable, which is true.

SFU;

A criticaly aclaimed tv series from HBO created by Alan Ball *of American Beauty fame* regarding the lives of the Fisher family who run a funeral home. The show primarily deals with death and the lives and story arcs of the caharacters are in one way affected by the deaths around them in one way or another.

i wont go into plot details as some of you who read this *if anyone does* may not have watched it and i wouldnt want to spoil it.

Needless to say, i watched the last few episodes of the Final Season as well as the series finale episode. I have never wept and cried as hard as i did when i watched these episodes; as i was wacthing it i just thought of the vulnerbaility and mortality of human life and in that we should always live for the day as we never now what will happen in our lives in the next second, minute, hour or whatever.

What i have learnt from this show is that , Life is important, we should fear death but not let that fear rule our lives. Being a Muslim, i do believe that there is a life after death in which we must prepare for and i will strive to find that balance in preparation for the two.

Apart from that , i have also learned to appreciate the people in our lives more, for as i mentioned we never know when we will lose them or when they will lose us. I discovered that through the loss, we sometimes will regret not having talked to them because we thought they were jerks, or irritating and what not, for once they are gone, we will never have the chance of actually letting them know that despite all we do indeed love and care for them. I am specificaly talking about the people around us who we care for and love, not the backstabbing bastards that occupy the same air space.

Always look on the bright side of life and look at the best part of their lives and our own, appreciate it...

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), The Mother, 1932


This post is dedictaed to Uncle Adil (Al Fatihah), May Allah Bless him and his Family