My short stories

The Realization

Life was so happy! Everybody loved him and adored him! Although he had some rough patches occasionally with his father, Death, he always was praised!
Death was older and wiser. He knew far more than Life and understood why very few people appreciate his job. Death had been around long enough to know exactly how much he was hated by people too numerous to count!
Life would always watch children be born, people recover from diseases, but Life never really understood why he was so liked when so much pain comes with Life. Curious to know, Life asked Death why people loved Life and hated Death. Death thought for a moment before answering. "The answer is simple" said Death "Life is a beautiful lie, and Death is the ugly truth." Life let the words sink in, he thought about them, but he didn't agree with them. Life felt he was way more than some stupid lie, because lies are never worth much. Life decided to go out into the world again and just test this theory. Life had asked everyone that had walked by him if they had lost a loved one to Death. All answered with a sad yes. Life looked around at all the happy moments and realized that they were all breaks from the pain and reality of Death. When a child is born, another dies. Everybody dies and Life realized that Death is the unenviable truth. Life realized his only purpose was to distract the people from the pain of death, with a simple beautiful lie.