Glarice Kula was a co worker that was part of our printing operations
team for about two years before quitting in February due to poor health
issues. Thursday, we got the news that Glarice passed away due to
kidney and liver failure. She was only 49 years old.
It seems
that the older we get the more we take note that when friends or family
or co workers pass away. It also shows that time as you get older seems
to go by much faster unlike the days of being a kid and time dragging
away as we wished to be older.
There are two certain things in a
person's live which is birth and death. Death is only thing that is
certain upon each and every one of us. We just don't know when the end
comes. There are times in life that I wish I can die but then keep on
living to see where the next day takes me. Every day is a new
adventure, even for us old folk.
I've worked with Glarice for the
past couple years and we got along pretty good. She was a very hard
worker and would worked in other departments when the print load was
scarce. She had a distinctive laugh and was easy to talk to sometimes.
Like the rest of us, she did have her pointed observations on how
things were running in the department and also, like the rest of us,
could be critical of herself at times.
She lived out past
Anamosa on some old gravel road but every time we would get floods or
rains she wouldn't be able to come to work. Or if the roads were icy or
snowy. She didn't have the best of luck either. One day at work last
year, she had the misfortune of having Dick Cheney,the name of a skunk
that was hanging around our place plowed up inside her engine while some
idiot Animal Control dumbass trying to get it and ended up stinking her
car up bigtime. She also had to deal with plenty of her family
problems although she never let on about that but it did take a
emotional toll on her, which eventually would lead her to quit the
printing department and live the last months of her life in
reclusiveness. Some would say that she gave up on life after quitting
and when John, my boss told her how young she was when she died, I
couldn't believe that. I was thinking she was in her mid 50s.
Sometimes
I think some people eventually will themselves to die, after going
through so much. Does it come to you at a certain age, that once you
reach a certain age, there's no way of going back to what you was.
Growing old not to have children, having a job that pays your bills but
nothing else, living in a state to which you haven't found a lover or a
partner for ten plus years, and wondering if you made the right choice
of what you wanted to do. The refusal to give up the things you like,
cigarettes, booze, drugs and not exercising, which leads to health
complications and to some diabetes. Or living in obscurity. Or having
to take care of your family when they aren't able to take care of
themselves. The price of living so long in life sometimes. This decade
has slid by so fast that even I cannot believe that here we are in 2009
and looking and seeing people that i know pass on by. In Glarice's
situation she was a smoker and though she did made a effort to give up
smoking for a week, it was too hard or she maybe rather enjoy the smooth
menthol flavor in the time left. The case of death was kidney and
liver failure but the overall final fact that she simply was just sick
of life and just gave up.
Nevertheless Glarice Kula was a good
co worker and a good person and I was happy to know her in her time at
Pearson Inc. She will be missed.
