R.I.P Augustus Waters

Just to inform you, I am still hung up on that book.

Rest in peace. I now understand the real meaning of this sentence. Why do we say it when people die. It was a cliché for me till now. But after reading 'The Fault in our Stars' yesterday & having expecting Hazel to die all the time and Augustus to survive even after the Cancer returned, I just can't take it. I can't take it that Augustus had to die and had to die like that. His pain, his struggle to regain his



control.. control over himself.. his body.. his life.. control over that unlit cigarette.. He was strong, very strong. He wanted to live.. He really & desperately wanted to live.. but he couldn't. He was lost. He had to become Gus from Augustus. He didn't wanted to become what he was becoming.. but sadly it was the reality of life..the reality of death that he had to face. If not a hero, he deserved to die like Augustus but he died as Gus.



I know his last moments would have been horrible. I can't even begin to think of the grief. He didn't even get to see Hazel just one last time. He desperately wanted to live.. wanted to fight..fight for Hazel, for some more time.. but he knew there was a predetermined winner in his battle. Death took him. Took him away. Cancer won. Cancer took him away from his people even before death did. And after all the unthinkable pain and struggles he had to endure in those last 2 months.. I really and finally want him to take rest, have peace. No more cancer, no more dying.. Just peace.
I love you Augustus.. wherever you are.. Rest.. Rest in Peace.
     I now know the reality of a disease like Cancer more better after witnessing what it can do. How it can steal the most beautiful people of our lives within a short time. Now that I felt to have lost someone close to me (Augustus), I know the grief the families suffer is huge. I pray for all the Cancer patients who have lost their battles and for those who are still in the fight and for their families whose pain I can't even think of. May God help each and everyone of us to stay strong and somewhere find our own peace too.

P.S. Still need to get a life. Semester exams going on.