Living Wake
I've long had this idea of one-by-one, throwing my friends 'living wake' parties, but I've never had the courage ... or maybe the human kindness and time to do it. My concept is to throw a party in someone's honor 'as though they are dead' where everyone comes to talk about how much they'll be missed ... about how much they 'were' loved. I think this would make a lovely party. What a build up to hear the wonderful things people think of you "while you're alive" rather than not hear them after you're gone! Maybe this idea is silly ... maybe a little macabre. But I think it could really work. I think it would be a tremendous act of human kindness. How many of us ever have a party thrown in our honor without a reason behind it like a birthday or an anniversary, or a celebration: what if the celebration was YOU! I think the night would be full of funny stories, funny remembrances of that person ... how they got their nickname, the day they inadvertently walked right into a wall while stone-cold sober ... that sort of thing. Maybe there'd be a little tragedy too ... the dreams that will now go unfulfilled. The love he/she lost. I think it would be a loving, caring time full of human kindness. And I put the idea out there so you can have fun with those you love before it's too late to tell them the wonderful thoughts you have about them and for them. Remember this: we don't get out of this world alive!
God bless you all.
Owen
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