Letters to Love, Time and Death

Dear Death

Dear Death, Master of Life or whatever you want to get called,

I think I tried to avoid to write a letter to you, but hey, here it is.

Actually, I don't know what to say. You seem to be above us all the time, watching every single step we take and doing bets about every single decision we make. I know I can't ask you for something, because that just won't work, but I do it anyway (I'm a little rebel, sorry).

Here it comes.. I'm really nervous right now, because once I wrote it down or spoke it out, you know it and maybe doing the checkmate-thing. So I'll be brave and just hope you won't do it. Please, Death, don't take my loved ones from me to soon. They are everything that I have, especially my family, but also my best friends. I'm thankful you haven't come for anyone in my surroundings. Well, once you came, you took a small part of my family with you. Some may wouldn't consider a pet as family, but I did, and I got hurt. That's what makes me insecure and makes me fear you. If this was "only" a small part of my family, how will I feel when you come to get a great part of my family? Will I feel a billion times more awful? Have I just felt too much for my pet? Actually I don't wanna know, I'm begging you not to let me know, at least for the next thirty to forty years.

You know, I can't put the pet-story down yet. What makes me really angry is, that every time I am thinking about getting a new pet, I am asking myself if I really want that. Do I really want to take that responsibility? Do I really want these constant worries? Do I really want to face the fact, that I will fall in love with this pet again and then it just dies? This is cruel! This isn't what love is meant to be! I know, everything is finite, but why, just why does it have to hurt every single time? Can't you three Masters of Life just like, do a brief announcement so we are prepared for the shock? Is that too much to ask for?

I am sorry, Death.

You must be very lonely ... there are only a few people who welcome you and are glad to come with you. I'm still very young, maybe that's an important fact to mention. I'm just not ready to accept every move you make, but I will be, at least I'm trying to. I don't want to wish you a successful year, because, you know ...

Thoughtful regards

Melina