Attended a wedding today with my parents. Some relative's son got married today, hence the wedding reception. But it's not the wedding that I want to talk about, rather, it's about one of their son. A little history before I go into details.



Our family were quite close in the past, with birthdays being attended by all and lots of fun and joy. Whenever there's a party at our place, they would come over and we, as children would always chit chat and play and run around the place. AFter a while we don't meet as often, and things were just different. We no longer hang out much with each other and seldom visit each other. Yet we still attend the same high school and all. We know each other but we don't talk to each other at schools, with each of us at different age and with different groups in classes.



Bad news came a couple of years back, when we found out that their youngest child has cancer. Bone cancer it seems. Because we weren't so close anymore, I just take it as it is, that he has cancer. I knew he was quite sad and all, not wanting to see anyone and also not accepting the fact. He was attending chemo and all, the usual things u do when u face cancer. It was during this period of time that his eldest brother got married. Being relatives, we attended his wedding reception too. That was the first time after finding out that Ah Bee got cancer that I saw this aunt. Her face was full of worries and full of sadness, but yet at the same time she has to be there at the wedding reception as she is the hostess for the night. It was then that it hit me, that her child is really really sick.



Tonight, I saw his son, Ah Bee, the boy who has cancer. At first I couldn't recognise him. No longer was he the little boy that I know, but a full grown young man at the age of 18, tall and sturdy and handsome. He seemed alright and all. It was tonight too that I found out that cancer has taken one of his leg away, and now he wears a prosthetic leg. Also, tonight I found out that he is not healed, but rather the cancer has spread to his lungs. He seems alright, but I know deep inside he is fighting for his life. Such a young man, with so much future ahead of him, yet, they are blocked by this sickness that he is facing.



I just pray that God will do something, that somehow things would be better for him. I wish I stopped by and say hello to him, and say goodbye to him when I was leaving. I have so many chances to talk to him, but I did not. I do hope that things will be better for him. Dear God, do help him...



This makes me think of friends whom I know that want to take their lives away. Why can't they see, that they are so lucky, to be able to lead a life when some struggles on. They are so lucky to have received education, to have good parents and to have a future ahead of them. For Ah Bee, he does not know how long his life will be, and how he will face each day, but yet he lives on.



It makes me think about my life too, to have such wonderful and loving parents. Though I might have been hurt by them in the past, I still know that they love me and I have come to accept them as they are. I'm so privileged to be able to study till I get a degree, to be able to further my studies overseas. I'm so privileged to have a life ahead of me, for not being sick, for being alive and well and being loved by friends around. Makes me want to cherish my life more. I just hope that people will realise and be content with what they have. I just hope, I truly hope that Ah Bee will be able to live on and to be able to have a good life ahead of him. Dear God, I pray...I do pray on his behalf Lord........