Light Yagami
February 28, 1986 - January 28, 2010

Yesterday | I Started A Joke | The Sound of Silence | Carry That Weight

This card was made in commemoration of the official date of death of Light Yagami in the Death Note series. The song used is "Carry That Weight" by The Beatles. Notice the message in the card: "He's gonna carry that weight." It is written in the third-person point of view. This reflects the fact that Light has died on January 28, 2010. Now that he has left his earthly life, his soul will now be forced to spend the rest of its time in neither heaven nor hell but in truly torturous world of nothingness as the consequence for his use of the Death Note. Honestly, even I find this fact very saddening. For him to be that brilliant, and yet to end up in a place of nothingness is truly a tragic story. He has killed many people during his life, and in his death he is forced to carry that weight of punishment in the world of nothingness until the end of time.

As we commemorate his death later this week, let his tragic life remind us that we should make the most out of our lives while we still can. For all the mistakes that we've done, let's try to correct them or make it right. Let us not allow ourselves to carry a heavy weight of burden for the rest of our lives.

The selection of this song was partly inspired from the film, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".