Memory of Grandfather forever

Grandfather passed away in the early morning of Dec 14, his funeral was finished by Dec 16’s afternoon. I really don’t know where to start about my grandfather’s story. The funeral, fete, tears, all things come out on my mind from time to time.

The most impressed memory is that my grandfather always was in the living room when we visited them on holiday, he was just sitting over there and waiting for us coming back home to get together. He always cared of us about of our life and work, sometimes we thought the overly caring was annoying, however we are not going to hear his voice anymore, life is short which is so true. I had grown up and lived with them until I was 16, afterwards I moved to Shanghai with my parents. I left my grandfather nearly 9 years which I visited them regularly once a year, that was so less.

I really do miss my grandfather though his body wasn’t here anymore with us, but I do believe he lives in our hearts forever. I tried my best to stay with his body in the living room in the past three days, he was so skinny that his face wasn’t be recognized by those people who haven’t seen him a lot. I know, he was my grandfather, sleeping so peacefully in the coffin, just peacefully.

The toughest time for me is the farewell for grandfather’s body in the crematorium, it was the first time for me to visit so serious and scared place in the world, the video man made a tape for us, after the farewell, we went to buy the stone box for grandfather’s bone ash, we picked a stone one with nice décor finally and asked them to carved grandfather’s name, birth date and death date. Later we were waiting in the restroom and was told that we could watch the video together, it was extremely sad and I saw my grandfather for the last time before he was sending to the first cinerator, I hate this. A couple of minutes later, the staff sent my grandfather’s bone ash to the restroom which was wrapped by the red silk. My dad took it and put into the stone box, the big body turned into a box of ash, this is the most astonished thing I ever experienced before.

Well, life needs to move on, i do miss my grandfather! Rest in peace!