This trip for me was amazing. It really puts life into perspective when we think about how we simply burry our dead and we "lay them to rest" and then in a few weeks we go on about our buisness. We think about them here and there, but then our time comes and we get "laid to rest" and it is just a continuous process. Why do we hold onto our dead? Why do we create a memorial stone in their honor? Are our memories of them not enough? Do we just forget them after a period of time and so we have a stone put in the ground and grave yards to hold them so that we don't forget about them? I love going to a burrial site and seeing what a legacy people have on their tomb stones. It's sad but refreshing to see that there were people before us and that life isn't just about the here and now. There were millions of people that lived before us and we so often get wrapped up in our own little word and forget that there were many significant people that lived full lives before us. It's such a peaceful place to be yet we make it out to be such a wierd place to go and visit. Maybe if we paid a little more respect for our dead and realized that it's not just about the piece of stone in the ground that honors them but rather the memories that make their legacy so strong then we can truely begin to appreciate those before us.
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