Beautiful Lesson
Titaniel Indra Irawan
From: Budi Rahardjo <rah...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 3:53 PM
Subject: beautiful lesson
To: lathifa...@gmail.com
The girl in
the picture is Katie
Kirkpatrick, she is 21.
Next to her, her fiancé, Nick, 23. The
picture was taken shortly before their wedding
ceremony, held on January 11, 2005 in the
US. Katie
has terminal cancer and spend hours a day receiving
medication. In the
picture, Nick is waiting for her on one of the many sessions of quimo to
end.
In
spite of all the pain, organ failures, and morphine shots, Katie is going along
with her wedding and took care of every detail. The dress had to be
adjusted a few times due to her constant weight
loss.
An
unusual accessory at the party
was the
oxygen tube that Katie used throughout the ceremony and reception as
well. The
other couple in the picture are Nick's parents. Excited to see her son marrying
his high school sweetheart.
Katie, in her wheelchair with the oxygen tube, listening a song from her husband and friends.
At
the reception, Katie had to take a few rests. The pain do not let her to be
standing up for long periods.
Katie died five days after her wedding
day.
Watching a women so ill and weak getting married and with a smile
on her face makes us think..... Happiness is reachable, no matter how long it
last. We should stop making our
lives
complicated.
Life
is short.
Break
the rules.
Forgive quickly.
Kiss
passionately.
Love
truly.
Laugh
constantly.
And
never stop smiling no matter how strange life
is.
Life
is not always the party we expected to be, but as
long as we are here, we should smile and be
grateful.