A short reflection on death

I found out this evening that someone I once knew passed away last year. I didn't know them very well, a couple of emails, a dinner at someone's place. That's all. I wouldn't have thought a moment more about them until someone mentioned, in passing over dinner, that they had died. People die every day, and yet I feel nothing, but now I do. Feel. No matter how much we hide it, there is humanity in us all. Thank God.