Funerals are weird...

I don't know what to do at a christian funeral... I mean I'm already a buddhist, what else do u want me 2 do...function in a judeo-christian-amoral world?!?!?!?!

Ok, so it's not that bad, but I've never been to a funeral before. EVER. And the service is too quiet, they say celebrate the love and life, but there's no celebration. Tears are good, but accompanied by grief only is something I don't like. I think all the asians in the place (about 7) threw off the people who were there that actually knew the guy. But we were there to support our buddy Dale, who asked us to come. So we went. Maybe, t'was a bad idea for me and my bro to go to a funeral. :(

Then there's the thought that within the next 2-3 years, one of the people in my IB class will probably tragically have died somehow or someway. That's a scary thought, and maybe by the time we're 25 we'll have known more than 5 people who were in the same class as we were in school, will probably have died as well.

As I reach towards 20 years old, the prospect of life being a constant cycle of death and rebirth, starts to make more sense to me as well.

Hmm...in buddhism: the concept is that at every breath, one is reborn again. It is that we'll eventually die, but only in our physical form; our spiritual form: soul, won't go away; it's just resting. Unfortunately, it seemed like the people there didn't subscribe to that philosophy as much. :
Oh well, g'night!