The Irony of Life

Just last week, I received an email from my husband who is currently in India, aboard the off-shore vessel where he works. His subject read "Bad News" and I was thinking there was again a problem in the province and that his family had called him. But no. When I opened the email and read it I learned that he lost another good friend.

Melvin Zate, known as Tata to friends and perhaps family, was one of my husband's best friends in his line of work. Tata was said to have died of leukemia while at the duration of his contract. He was confined in a hospital in Singapore and died there. Tata's colleague, who worked in the same vessel with him, emailed my husband who is aboard another off-shore vessel from another company. The news hit my husband bad. I could just imagine how much hurt he was. He must have cried. He has lost a friend.

If the news has been hard for friends to accept, what more for his family, wife and child? If it had happened to my husband, I don't know if I could handle it. My husband said the wife was pregnant.

It is almost funny how life could be so ironic. Just last June or July, Tata and my husband were able to see each other in Singapore and he was just well and happy. It is this reason that my husband could almost not believe that his friend is gone. The irony of life. You can never tell what will happen next.

I told my husband it must have been God's will. Deep inside I am also worried that one day, things like that will happen to him or to me. We are young. We have much ambitions to reach and dreams to follow. But then, we can never.

Only God knows...

My condolences to Tata's family...

I don't know what else to say knowing that it is not easy to accept some facts of life. Sometimes things are not what we want them to be and we have no control over what will become of our lives.