“When you see people through the eyes of death you see them very differently. The beauty of the other person is then more visible.” That’s a rather remarkable thing to ponder, isn’t it? It also seems to be in keeping with the spirit of the Day of the Dead.
Another thing this day helps us remember is that the grieving process doesn’t tend to be linear. It’s more like it’s circular. Which reminds me that I recently watched the movie Arrival, which attempts to show what it would be like if we could conceive of time as circular, with no beginning and no end. Throughout the movie the main character remembers a future (past? present?) death of another character and it is moving to watch.
Hillman again: “After a person’s dead, his faults, his or her unbearable qualities, become clarified, and you remember them as virtues.”
