That Which Defies Death

During the last days of Macondo, the fictitious (but really, how fictitious? Don't South American and Czech writers heavily allude to their national history when they write?) town in Gabriel Garcia Marquez' Hundred Years of Solitude, Aureliano and Amaranta Ursula were lying together one night when they heard the traffic of the dead in the Buendia ancestral home - which stood with a resilience as formidable as that of the matriarch Ursula, having seen the rise and fall of 4 (or 5?) generations of Buendias - the traffic of the dead, which consisted of Ursula talking about some relative who had gone to the afterlife well before she herself had; Fernanda praying, I think her rosary; Col. Buendia obsessing about his wars and tiny gold fishes; and a whole lot more dead adding to the escalating ruckus with their signature ways, and there, the couple arrived at an "Ah!" moment: They realized that obsessions can actually prevail against death. With that, "they were happy again with the certainty that they would go on loving each other in their shape as apparitions..."

Makes you wish you'd end with somebody who'd feel as much - and with whom you'd KNOW as much. Well too bad Amaranta Ursula happens to be Aureliano's aunt. (Nyahaha.)

So what would be my obsession that would endure long after I've died, and have gone to heaven? (If you're wondering how I could be so certain, my doctrine of salvation says I'm saved because Jesus died for me. More on this later.) I rather think I have 3:

1. think to the point of exhaustion (can't help it - it's a hobby)

2. almost drive Jesus to boredom with my talk (but I bet Jesus would be so polite, He'd stifle the yawn to the very end)

3. clean my heavenly home (but would there be dirt in heaven to clean? parang wala) and bake

How about you? What would YOU be doing?

:D

Comments

[Pam]

1. siguro being choleric pa rin, haha
2. making kwentuhan pa rin, chatting pa rin with Jesus (blush) over a cup of coffee or a really good view
3. being in love pa rin.. haha!

[Pam]

yung first comment ko under the assumption na hundred years of solitude ang after life ha, baka pagalitan niyo ako eh.. hehe

[Francheska]

haven't finished reading one hundred years of solitude but i agree dt ang galing nga ni gabriel marquez coz the way he wrote the story made it seem believable kahit totally out of this world ung mga nangyayari.

sa obsessions ko even after i die:
1. cooking parin siguro. ipgaluluto ko si God ng mga pasta ko, hahaha.
2. tunganga galore pa din. and i'm thinking na since super ganda ng heaven, mas masarap tumunganga.
3. si ano.... whahaha. (obsession tlga di ba?)

[Anna]

haha, ate francis, haha.

[ayLiYa]

1. still loving all things beautiful - beautiful music, beautiful art, beautiful people. And I'm sure there'll be lots of things beautiful in heaven.

2. haha wala na ko maisip. Pag meron mag comment na lang ako ulit.

[yobic]

kumakanta. lalo na kapag live audience na.