I have always wondered what it was about graveyards that always seemed to attract me to them. Whenever I drive past one I always seem to have a strong urge to turn around and go in. Maybe it's the peacefulness that is inherent in a graveyard, the final rest, the end of all worldly troubles.
The finish line,where the tombstones stand like the last page of a book.
They seem almost to be the eye of the storm of the activity of this Life all around them. As if Life just stops within those gates, in more ways than one. They can be a place of meditation where the peace and stillness permeates the very soul. For some reason I feel safe when I go to see the graves of my Mother and my Sister, and yet...
...and yet when it's time to go it's almost like getting out of bed and having to go out once more into what the poet e.e.cummings described as "...the strenuous briefness, Life....", having to leave and knowing you have to leave them behind
again.
Is it just me? I have often wondered. Sometimes I think that's why I so often can relate to this family more than I can to the "Leave it to Beaver" families:
Do you have these feelings too? Or maybe,
is it just me?
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Coincidentally tonight I read in several places that this was the last ayah of the Qur'aan that was revealed ... about a month after which... marked the end of the chapter of its Messenger (saw).
Muhsin KhanAnd
be afraid of the Day when you shall be brought back to Allah. Then
every person shall be paid what he earned, and they shall not be dealt
with unjustly.
http://quran.com/2/281
@versatil - Very interesting acki! I was told that there was once one of our scholars who had a grave dug somewhere or another and every so often he would go and climb down in it and lie there for a little while to remind himself that one day he would be there and I guess it would help him to be a better person in this Life while he still had the time...
Indeed!
youtu.be/UxX-uhaD32E
@markearthtourist - have you ever been in a coffin? it can/does bring about a bit of change.
I'm a big graveyard fan myself. Though I took a morning walk yesterday and decided to avoid it because it was too eerily foggy.
@ShimmerBodyCream - So happy I'm not alone in this.
I don't have an aversion to graveyards, as many people do, and (imo) culturally as we're conditioned to have. That said, I don't particularly have an attraction to them either. But I definitely see your points about the inherent serenity inside a graveyard. I'm naturally drawn to solitude, so I'd probably find some respite there too.
mark earth tourist
I used to think your name was
maker art the tourist.
x_x
I FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT
@ShimmerBodyCream - :D That's right! I
you Shimmer! :)
I lived next to a cemetery when I was in high school. I often did homework there and found it peaceful.
@Pepin909 - There is a peacefulness that seems to be particular to them. I get similar feelings with windy days with overcast skies, the low grey clouds like a great steel net cast over the canopy of the sky...
I admire the fact you have pink and purple on your blawg and yer a dude. *high five*
@ShimmerBodyCream -