Week1- Vivianne Lee

     Three year ago I traveled to Tokyo Japan to visit my grandfather who was dying of pneumonia. It was second to last day of our visit, it was Summer and it was very hot in my grandparents house so I decided to go get ice cream with my mom. My grandfather was in the living room watching Japanese comedy shows. He looked well compared to other days and he sat smiling at the television. So we left for thirty minutes at most and when we returned he had passed away. The ambulance came and packed his body into a ice box being that the funeral would take place two days after. He was left there in the living room resting peacefully.

     After the funeral took place and I was back in the U.S, I had a feeling that there was a presence with me for about two weeks. Then one day at school a random asian girl came up to me during lunch and asked me if I had someone pass away recently. She said she saw an old man following me. She described him wearing a grey shirt. My grandfather typically only wore grey shirts so I knew she was describing him. The day he passed away, he was also wearing his favorite grey shirt he has worn for years. She said that he was confused and wasn’t ready for the afterlife, so he was following me and my family in order to find his own way. Eventually I felt the presence leave as I hope it’s because he found his way. It was also weird to me how he passed away two days before our two month visit to Japan. I felt like he knew he was going to pass away very soon and so he decided to pass away surrounded by his loved ones.