How Does Death Affect My Life

time, I approached to the grave where she was wrapped in a white shroud and then taken out of her coffin and put into the open grave that Asli’s grandfather had purchased for himself.
For as long as I can remember, the idea of death has never affected me. It always occurred to me as the end stage of an older person’s life. Having my young friend die without warning seemed abrupt and unreal because it was unnatural to see someone with such a great future ahead of them cut off from life in the midst of the early stages of life and success. Obviously, life and death were more complicated than I thought.
Because of the emotional impact of losing my friend, I realized the truth that death is real and closer than we think. Death is a natural and inevitable fact of our lives and no one can control it. As a result of this enlightenment and shock, I began searching …show more content…
This fact led me to be frustrated and have a lot self-doubt about they way I acted or spoke. For example, my female friends judged me for having platonic relationships with my male friend. They did not believe that we were only friends. I feel that it is my personal decision to be close to my male friends, as well as my female friends, but for a time, I withdrew from my male friends because my female friends thought that boys and girls being close without having an intimate relationship was unnatural. After a while, however, I started to realize how immature they were. I knew that I could maintain the boundaries I had in my friendships with anyone, regardless of their gender despite the reservations that other people had. To me, the fact that my friends were either boys or girls did not change the way I behaved with them. My experiences with traditionalism in my native society with both the older and newer generations allowed me to see the negative impact that conforming to traditional conventions would have on my life, and therefore, this helped me grow as a