"In Loving Memory" and, "Gone but Not Forgotten", they are common messages on tombstones.
I see a vast cemetery through the window from commuting train every day.
Today, I took a walk in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
That was the first time I have been to a cemetery in a foreign country.
There was an enormous numbers of tombstones. Even walking a little from the road, the cemetery was very quiet.
There were some squirrels on the remaining snow.
Don't they sleep during winter?
Many tombstones were so old, it seemed they were for people who lived around here in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
They lived during the time when Monet, Rousseau, Van Gogh and others lived.
They might have known these historical giants as current people. Whereas I only know them in paintings or books.
I saw a tombstones of a man that was born in Europe and died in Canada. I imagined his life from his epitaph that he immigrated after WW1 and worked in Canada, and went through WW2 in his 50s.
I can't know what his life was like, but I think it is one of the history of people in Canada.
Generally, it's hard to imagine an individual's history but I somewhat felt it. It was a meaningful place.
(Please don't mention I visited kind of place in TGIF.)
Thanks Artemiss,Treisan
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