A saw a woman die.
We were in a large room with a lot of people when she slid down her
chair and fell on the floor. The
paramedics were there in no time, and my companion took a potty break while the
evening's activities were sidetracked by the medical drama. While she was gone I tried to tune into what
was going on with the old lady. I was
close enough to see activity without details, and not close enough to hear anything.
It looked like they were going to load her up and take her
to the hospital when I "saw" her spirit leave her body. It was like a white, twisting mist that
pulled away and zipped out the open door.
My companion ran into the room and whispered "Did you see
that?! She just died!" We both "saw" that white wisp.
I don't know how to explain seeing something invisible, or
why a spirit would twist out of a body like that, or why it would go out a
doorway when a spirit shouldn't need doorways anymore. There's a whole lot of things that I don't
understand at all.
Somebody sent around an email a while ago that asked a bunch
of questions intended to make us all get to know each other better. One of the questions was "Have you ever
seen someone die?" I was surprised
how many people said yes. Have
you? Did it change what you think of
dying and/or the afterlife?
Seeing that old lady's spirit was an affirmation to me that
there is more to life that what we see around us, that something survives the
body.
This topic reminds me a lot of work since I work for
Religion, but I value my job sufficiently to keep my endless questions to
myself. I remember how many times I got
in trouble when I was little for all my whys and hows and whats, and I know
I'll never change. I'll always ask
questions.
In a conversation with a religious person over a project I
was told, "Quit thinking so much.
Put your experience on the back burner.
Just trust the process."
Them's fighting words, and the project is making me insane. Let me vent a little...
Recently, I've had a couple of contractors repeatedly refuse
to follow directions. This floors
me. What happened to "the customer
is always right"? I've worked on
plenty of projects where I thought the customer was dead wrong, said so, then
did what they wanted -- sometimes finding out their way wasn't so awful after
all. (Though sometimes it was.)
Have I just gotten unlucky recently, or do you think this
kind of refusal amongst designers is a trend?
Do you think perhaps it's because we've lost studios where other artists
saw and critiqued each other's work?
Because software knowledge trumps design?
