Five years ago, I used to live in a university dorm. And there was this food nook I frequently go to because aside from being conveniently located near my place, there was also a family of stray university cats living outside it. And I adored those cats that I was known to be the student who visits the food nook often to play with the cats.
And besides the go-to food nook I used to feed my famished student self, there was a store where the stray university cats were frequently fed. It was a woman who worked there who fed them regularly.
Today, I just learned that that woman died from COVID-19. So did the couple who owned the shop she worked for just months after she did.
And I never saw the cats around the area too.
As I begin to ponder about what I just learned, the news made me think about how uncertain our lives are; here today and gone tomorrow. It made me also think about the mundane things we do that are remembered.
I never knew the woman’s name, but I can remember what she did when she was alive.
Yes, we are remembered for what we do.
jessa 