Please treat this as a personal reflection to which I have given much thought
The remembrance of the departed batch mates is of importance and I agree that it should from an integral part of our reunion. The form should be dignfied and proportionate.
As suggested a three minute remenbrance of each deceased individual has many flaws. The first is the length of time - nearly two hours. Subjecting participants to such an emotive period of response could have a serious negative influence on the whole proceedure.
I have two proposals:
Roll Call : 1. Each name called out - ( just the name) by a friend.
2. Each name called out by a friend with the year or date of death - this emphesising the time spread of rememberance (fron entry to date).
This proposal will time limit the period of rememberance and spare us of the agony of a prolonged period of recall that could be very painful.
I hope we could give due regard to this. Equally I would be happy to recall a batchmate or two as proposed.
With best wishes
Sidney Hettiaratchy
From: daya & nalini rodrigo
To: kanka_kapuwatte@hotmail.com, PG Veerasingam
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 07:53:38 +0530
Subject: Remembering departed
Dear Sarath & Phillip,
This is the second one to say its too long. I guess the long time is true though how remembrance after so long can be painful I cant imagine!
Maybe as a compromise we should make it one minute per person.
I think one thing we also have to stress is that people are free to spend the time as they want - go out & have chat sessions, do trips, whatever. & attendance at any of the planned events is not compulsory.
Nalini
The total length of time is the problem. Call the name, and may be light a candle each.
Daya jayasinghe.
Sidney,
Thanks for expressing your thoughts. I will agree with you three minutes is a very long time, it will be impossible to keep our concentration. It will totally loose its meaning.
Kamalini
No comments:
Post a Comment