This was Irisa's favorite theory/story on what life, death and the afterlife is like. Irisa loved everyone so much that she wanted to share these comforting words. "It's good to believe in something"-Irisa Selfo

In a mother's womb were two babies. The first baby asked the other

"Do you believe in life after delivery"

The second baby replied

"Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery."

"Nonsense" said the first. "There is no life after delivery. What would that life be?"

"I don't know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths."

The doubting baby laughed.

"This is absurd! Walking is impossible. And eat with our mouths? Ridiculous. The umbilical cord supplies nutrition. Life after delivery is to be excluded. The umbilical cord is too short."

The second baby held his ground.

"I think there is something and maybe it's different than it is here"

The first baby replied,

"No one has ever come back from there. Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery it is nothing but darkness and anxiety and it takes us nowhere."

"Well, I don't know" said the twin "but certainly we will see mother and she will take care of us"

"Mother?" The first baby guffawed. " You believe in mother? Where is she now?"

The second baby calmly and patiently tried to explain. She is all around us. It is in her that we live. Without her there would not be this world"

"Ha, I don't see her, so it's only logical that she doesn't exist"

To which the other replied "Sometimes when you're in silence you can hear her, you can perceive her. I believe there is reality after delivery and we are here to prepared ourselves for that reality when it comes…."

Irisa left behind a lot, a great GPA, friends that loved her and much more. But what she left behind to the people closest to her, her sisters, mother and soon to be goddaughter/niece, was love, a new sense of life and self, a reminder to take every day as if it will be your last, to love the ones closest to you like it's your last and not just because it may very well be your last. To love them because you deserve to live in this present life, you deserve the love to fill every part of every second, otherwise why are we even here?

We're here for such a brief life, we all live in cycles, day in and day out making the same mistakes the last one made. We seem to forget to live, to love, to play and to show our gratitude for the ones around us that make it all possible. It's easy to forget in this world, but Irisa helped us finally see that, maybe it's too late for her to see it, but she didn't let us make the same mistake. Don't take life for granted, live your life happily every minute, stop obsessing over pasts you can never make right and futures you can't possibly promise. This love is the biggest legacy Irisa left, and it's probably the best one too.