remember me as me...=)

this morning at 2am, a family friend passed away.. it was so sudden.

he had one leg shorter than another, then one time during a healing prayer meeting, he got healed and his shorter leg grew to the same length as the other. but due to a lack of use for umpteen years, it was kinda weak, so he still walked with a limp. but at least he did not have to custom make his shoes to have one with higher soles. but i digress.

he died due to a heart attack. heart attack...or otherwise known as myocardial infarction... it happens when there is a thrombus blocking the coronary artery or when an unstable plaque ruptures, leading to myocardial ischaemia where the heart lacks oxygenated blood. if not reversed, irreversible myocardial cell damage and cell death occurs, leading on to myocardial infarction, with reduced function of the heart. when the heart cannot function, the whole body just shuts down.

yea yea i know all this facts, but people are not supposed to die. that's not the end of the story. they are supposed to get rushed to the hospital and recover after that. then we the pharmacists will counsel them on changing their diet and on how to take their medication. but well.. this is reality.

everybody dies in the end. but what do we leave behind? i remember that i always went to this uncle's house when my old house was fogged. he was a very nice guy. then his three daughters would entertain me and show me their coin collection. i was... in kindergarden? older maybe?

a friend of mine wrote that when people die, others will remember them for what they did, not what they were. it's like, they won't remember someone who was the top of the class, or someone who was the prom king or prom queen. but they will remember the someone who lent them a helping hand when they were in need, the someone who sat beside them when they cried, the someone who left an impact in their lives..

it just makes me wonder, what will i be remembered as? =]