Comments on: Lessons of Life and Death http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2007/08/31/lessons-of-life-and-death/ Make it Happen For Yourself and for the World Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:21:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Arvind Devalia http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2007/08/31/lessons-of-life-and-death/comment-page-1/#comment-2533 Arvind Devalia Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:09:00 +0000 http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2007/08/31/lessons-of-life-and-death/#comment-2533 Thanks Anne for sharing such a personal story. I felt your pain and grief as I read through your story. Know that all your loved ones are happy wherever they are now. Their love will always be with you:-) Lots of love Arvind Thanks Anne for sharing such a personal story.

I felt your pain and grief as I read through your story. Know that all your loved ones are happy wherever they are now.

Their love will always be with you:-)

Lots of love

Arvind

]]> By: Anne Brandt Dias http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2007/08/31/lessons-of-life-and-death/comment-page-1/#comment-2530 Anne Brandt Dias Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:38:23 +0000 http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2007/08/31/lessons-of-life-and-death/#comment-2530 Dear Arvind, We had just left for our holidays in Greece. The next day we went to an exchange place to change some £ notes I had left into drachmas. Seeing the note, the lady looked at me and said 'how sad your princess has died' I had not heard the news as we were packing to leave, then flying out and upon arrival had dinner and went to bed. I did not know what she was talking about and who she meant. So when I asked her and she told me it was Lady Diana, I was stunned and lost for words apart from 'oh no - it can't be'. It came as a shock. I just could not believe nor accept it. Princess Diana was loved by thousands. She was admired for her humility, kindness and caring and last but not least her beauty. She was a great mother and a formidable princess. She will be remembered for a long time. So yes Arvind 'to live in hearts we leave behind is not to die" by Thomas Campbell is very appropriate in the case of Princess Diana, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Mother Teresa. Yes I went through a bad year 1990. A very dear family friend died within days in January of that year. Fortunately I had seen him the day before we left Bombay to return home. Eight days later when we returned from dinner and the phone rang. It was his daughter who called me and gave me the news. I was very upset - he was only 60. Less than three months my own mother died. Again, we had seen each other for the last time on 9th January knowing we would meet in the summer when she was to come over, but it did not happen as she died. I could not believe it nor accept it but I cherished the fact that we spent some quality time together without knowing that it would be the last. Less than four months after my mother's death, my sister-in-law died at the age of 52! So you can imagine it being bad enough to lose one person but 3 within 8 months was just too much. Fortunately for me, I was working for a Principal Legal Adviser and we were extremely busy at work. I would get home and cook dinner - later at night I would cry myself to sleep. This went on for a long time. So yes I have been there and suffered. Time is the best but unfortunately the slowest healer. Dear Arvind,
We had just left for our holidays in Greece. The next day we went to an exchange place to change some £ notes I had left into drachmas. Seeing the note, the lady looked at me and said ‘how sad your princess has died’ I had not heard the news as we were packing to leave, then flying out and upon arrival had dinner and went to bed. I did not know what she was talking about and who she meant. So when I asked her and she told me it was Lady Diana, I was stunned and lost for words apart from ‘oh no – it can’t be’. It came as a shock. I just could not believe nor accept it. Princess Diana was loved by thousands. She was admired for her humility, kindness and caring and last but not least her beauty. She was a great mother and a formidable princess. She will be remembered for a long time.

So yes Arvind ‘to live in hearts we leave behind is not to die” by Thomas Campbell is very appropriate in the case of Princess Diana, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Mother Teresa.

Yes I went through a bad year 1990. A very dear family friend died within days in January of that year. Fortunately I had seen him the day before we left Bombay to return home. Eight days later when we returned from dinner and the phone rang. It was his daughter who called me and gave me the news. I was very upset – he was only 60. Less than three months my own mother died. Again, we had seen each other for the last time on 9th January knowing we would meet in the summer when she was to come over, but it did not happen as she died. I could not believe it nor accept it but I cherished the fact that we spent some quality time together without knowing that it would be the last. Less than four months after my mother’s death, my sister-in-law died at the age of 52! So you can imagine it being bad enough to lose one person but 3 within 8 months was just too much. Fortunately for me, I was working for a Principal Legal Adviser and we were extremely busy at work. I would get home and cook dinner – later at night I would cry myself to sleep. This went on for a long time. So yes I have been there and suffered. Time is the best but unfortunately the slowest healer.

]]> By: Arvind Devalia » The day Diana died http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2007/08/31/lessons-of-life-and-death/comment-page-1/#comment-328 Arvind Devalia » The day Diana died Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:10:53 +0000 http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2007/08/31/lessons-of-life-and-death/#comment-328 [...] rather than focusiing on the way a person died, we should celebrate their life and learn the lessons they taught [...] [...] rather than focusiing on the way a person died, we should celebrate their life and learn the lessons they taught [...]

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