Joan Chan Shu Fang

I went to a wake today. You might have read about her in the papers. Her name was ShuFang, and she died on Wednesday from cancer after months of struggling and going through pain. She wasn't a personal friend of mine, but a friend of a friend. Yet when I visited the wake toady I couldn't bring myself to look straight into the coffin. There was a profound sadness. She was only 19.

Then I looked around me. And looked at all her close friends, who were like sisters to her. So close, so real, so genuine, that they stood by her day and night from the time she was healthy and happy, to the time when she knew her days were numbered. When she was strong, till she became frail and a shadow of herself.

When her body was broken, they suppoted her soul, kept her spirits up, through her pain and suffering.

I never got the chance to know her in this life.
Bless her soul, for she is in a better place now. She may have lived only a short period of time on our mortal earth, but if a person's life is measured by the friends he/she makes, then may she live on forever and ever.

Be safe Joan Chan Shu Fang. You are in the arms of an angel now. And you have touched me greatly with how you chose to lead your life.

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