Our life is an Anthropological experience - the whole of our life from the first second of our existence in the mother's womb until the last understandable exhalation (i still don't have any experience with the last one). Also very curious to know what is our last action - an inhale or an exhale. Somehow there is some association of the end of life with the exhale process, not sure why.
Anyway, during my visit to the Akko (Acre) old city street market, I witnessed the scene that you can see in the image below. The life of the market was stopped for a minute, this coffin and the only men, following it, most of them wore masks. Very serious faces, forward-looking eyes. No words, no cries. Just a silent row of people walking fast.
My friend, who stands next to me, said that we were witnesses to a very sad moment. To which I answered him that this moment is very sad only for the close the body in coffin people - the family and the friends. The one which is inside is already not sad and not happy, more emotionless, than something explainable by words and feelings, and finally, all we are will be at his/her current place.
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“Our life is an anthropological experience” I absolutely agree.. just as death is. I find the different conceptions about it curious and about what happens next.
I personally do not like wakes, precisely because of that contrast between the people who are suffering a loss and those who accompany as witnesses, but many perhaps without imagining the magnitude of the sadness of others.
Anyway I believe that we should change our way of seeing death, be grateful for the presence in our lives of the person who has left, and feel gratitude that the deceased person has already stopped suffering (if that was the case).
I loved that Pixar movie Coco, where is showed the way that the mexicans live the “day of the death”
Meanwhile life is now, Víctor! You said it right!! 🙌🏼
hi Ela.
thank you for the careful reading, for your point of view, and for the kind words.
let's live the moment. 💗
Indeed, the sadness is in the love the others still feel for the person they are carrying. Mourning is a sign of how much you loved a person, and therefore mourning is also something we should appreciate as such - as sort of a 'measure' to the amount of joy a person gave us when they were still alive.
Beautifully said.
Thank you. Came to this wording while discussing mourning loved ones with a friend. Very worthwhile to pounder subjects like these once in a while.
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I have seen a lot of burials. But I get the point. When my grandpa dies this year, there were a lot of emotionless people around. Only the close family was grieving. It is sad. Most of the time one is there to witness the solemnity of the moment. That's what keeps us silent. However, there's also the burial of thugs in this country which include loud music, people doing tricks on motorcycles and sometimes a rival clique coming to pay disrespects to the dead.
Couldn't have said it better!
so sorry about your father my friend.
i also saw many burials. as well took a part to hold a coffin of my dead friends when I was young.
and a burial process of the different nations and religions is very different and to go through the street with the coffin is not too usual in my country, so it was the reaction
I see. Well, these things are the defining event of life. Funny it can only be called that because it has an end. That for sure makes you wonder about doing a lot with your time.
you're right
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My mother died earlier this year. Instead of a funeral, we had a celebration of her life. People cried, for sure, but overall there were smiles and happy memories.
oh, so sorry my friend.
Thanks.
my pleasure
<3 Hugs for you.
Thanks, friend.
Great photo, and good thoughts! Indeed, we will all experience that someday. Or not. We'll be lifeless after all, probably only experiencing it if there is something beyond.
I like your last thought too, about enjoy now, not someday. Reminds me of a story. I think I'll post about it later.
thank you very much.
i do believe in the energy that is rolling from substance to substance, sure it happened to me before and will happen after. i will never know, as i don't remember my previous forms of "life"
mention me in your story, i would like to read it please
What you say is very much the Buddhist idea. Yeah, I agree with you.
I tagged you in it, but in case you missed it: https://peakd.com/zentales/@dbooster/to-enjoy-the-moment-a
thank you for taking a look and for the kind words my friend.
I know very superficially all the religious ideas, I can say that even the Castaneda books I read and got his ideas much more clear and close for me. the problem that we can talk about this endlessly, and possible, I return - possible some of us will know a little bit more after the happening that inevitably will happen to everyone, but also these few will have no way to convey to others this knowledge. and this is the biggest conspiration ever :-)
hi victor, thanks for pinging ;)
yes, life is good from the inside!
happy to hear from you my friend - you're very silent and invisible these days - i hope that everything is well
Things are quite intense; but at least I am doing small trips into interesting regions. Today starting for a tour of Hungary-Serbia-Romania, countries that let me travel freely...
It has become quite a challenge to get back to my usual working routine of driving around and finding pictures :)
oh envy you
i don't mind traveling far this time, all that is need covid tests, green passports, and other shit.
We need to fly to every country when traveling. but i travel a lot inside the country.
It has become a shit-obstacle-course ;)
According to the 'rules' I would not be allowed back into Austria without any of this shit. Reality is a different one, I know the smallest border crossing from Hungary... But one always has to be ready to fight, in case someone in uniform tries to take away one's basic rights...
"shit-obstacle-course" haha I loved this.
and now they prepare people for the next 4th "wave" as well for the next 4th boost. by the news, something very fast infecting is coming from Africa. :-)))
I can't believe how easy ppl do eat shit TV news is fake shit...
It is interesting to see how people deal with it/news/panic in different countries:
Hungary: Nobody seems to take it serious
Serbia (north): Everybody is wearing a mask. On their chins...
Romania: I will see, just arrived today
Austria: The prime-chancellors word is TRUTH
Fuuuuck, I see a long dire stretch coming up! Maybe after the 27th wave & shot nobody that stupid will still be alive. Sad!
'exhale', I think so too.
ps. in Chinese tradition, as far as I remember, folks used to smile when they see a dead person is going there, to the other side -- cause he's going to join the better world than this one.
good tradition by my opinion... hope that they are right :-)
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thank you my friend !
In your last posts, you have been sharing some reflections or thoughts together with photos that reinforces those ideas. I like this type of posts. The photographer besides recording "reality", interpretes it with his/her art.
Best regards.
thank you for the kind words - photography is the reality for me whatever how this reality is looks or feels, sometimes it's not too pleasant :-(
This is such a moving shot, Victor. They have strict traditions, customs, and rituals that take place, although I think it has lightened up a little as far as to sit Shiva here in the States.
Normally, your last breaths are very infrequent and you inhale oxygen and at that point, you are exhaling carbon monoxide.
I hope this person had a good life and his family will not be in too much emotional pain over losing them.
Stellar shot, always keeps me looking for your pictures.
thank you for the kind words, Denise.
i think that this was the mourning process of the Christian Arabs, so the process is very different from the usual we know. They use the coffin but no woman is allowed to go with the procedure
Thank you for pointing that out to me. I appreciate knowing all the little nuances and cultural/religious differences.
I'm not a big specialist, just lived in different and as I understand now, exotic places in terms of different mentality and the whole thinking about life. Religion is too far from me. It is how i was raised by parents and the CCCP :-)))