The End

THE END

 

Sooner or later, everyone experiences the pain of a terrible loss. Most of them are irreversible losses and we forever carry the cross of missing and the healing of remembering. But we endure the pain of knowing that there is no future, not in this life. Just the memories of times past.

Then there are losses that can eventually be reversed. The suffering is present all the same, mitigated by the hope we can get back who/what we lost, but compounded by the anxiety caused by the risk of not being able to recover the loss. The fear, the uncertainty eats away at you, leaving you in a permanent state of restlessness.

And, sometimes, we can go through a succession of severe losses. It’s like being clobbered with a sledgehammer, trying to get on your feet and getting slammed again, and again, and again. Then we get numb, not sure of what aches anymore, if it is D, or M, or U, or A, or X. It just lingers permanently and strikes regularly and most of the times you do not even know what triggered it and which one was triggered.

No, this is not the end, but each loss is a partial end, that in some way brings us closer to the definitive end. Thus the choice of this Pearl Jam song, to sublimate and (maybe) overcome the pain and the suffering of a loss, and a loss and yet another loss….

 

Pearl Jam: “The End” live in Seattle.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHR9QTk2ERM

 

 

Pearl Jam: “The End” (the lyrics)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL4lTZ_E7qo

 

P.S. For the record and not to cause any undue alarm, I am not ill.