Numquam Solum

On Monday the 2nd of November, my English Class and I walked to another small graveyard. This graveyard was very different from the previous graveyard that we'd gone to. Firstly, this one was much larger that the tiny fenced graves that we hiked up to, and it did not only have the tombs of one family. This graveyard had the tombs of several families and individuals. Some of the people buried there had lived over 100 years, others only a few hours. One small grave was brought to my attention because the man had lived 105 years - through the civil war! I couldn't even imagine the things that the man had seen in his lifetime. There were several graves for married couples. Some of these tombs were heart shaped and their year of marriage was embedded on the stone (I thought they were cute). There were also a few that had the birth and death year of one of the partners, and only the birth year of the other. At first I thought that the grave was reserved for when the other person died, which was the case in some, but after looking closely, I noticed that the second partner must have already died. I could only think of how sad this was because there were usually very loving inscriptions on the graves waiting for the other partner, and yet, they'd probably re-married. This graveyard also contained the graves of a lot of infants, some of which had only had hours of life. I found this so awful, but it brought questions to my mind, who's answers I will continue to seek.