The stranger by Camus

This is just a quote that had stayed with me for a very long time after I’ve read the book.

“I believe I understood why at the end of her life mama had taken a fiancé, why she had taken the chance to start all over again. So close to death mama must have felt set free, ready to live once more. No one- no one had the right to cry for her. I too felt ready to start life all over again.” “I opened myself to the tender indifference of the world”

So close to death he too felt ready to start life all over again. Life as meaningless and as passing it is.

The line that stuck with me the most wether it would be related to what Camus wanted to tell or not is “no one had the right to cry for her” Death should not be our last memory of someone. I absolutely hate when someone passes away and suddenly the memory that stays with everyone is their death, and so just their absence becomes filled with sadness and mourning. Yes that is grief but a part of me urges to let their absence be filled with memories of their presence, to keep those memories alive rather than drown their whole being with that one memory of their death. Because death shouldn’t define a whole life. If only we honored the life they’ve lived and kept those memories alive instead of mourned their whole being and filled it with cries