Life . . . what is life ?????
A few days back a friend and myself were returning in his car from some place when I faced an incident which started to make me think in a big way about the unexplained phenomena of Life..
What happened was ....there was this guy on a bike with laptop hung on his back. One of the most common sights of this IT city. He was riding a little ahead of us and suddenly we heard this crashing sound and see that the guy is knocked down by a truck and is sprawled in front of the vehicle.
We all rushed out to help him and fortunately he had not been seriously injured other than a few bruises and a torn pair of trousers. Even his laptop survived the crash and remained intact. We all helped him to get up and took to a nearby pharmacy where first aid was administered. We got talking and came to know his name, his place of work and some other details, after all this he left.
This experience has made me realize how fickle our lives are. We all are busy with our careers, making money, buying assets raising families and all the many other mundane and not so mundane tasks that constitute our lives. But we don't even realize or maybe want to realize that this life of ours can be snuffed in just an instant. Like this software engineer working in a Multinational Company, dreaming about going to the US, buying a huge flat, marrying that perfect girl to have that perfect family, all that could have been just made history by the rash act of a semi literate truck driver carrying a load of sand to the site of a residential complex in which the Engrr may have been planning to buy his flat.
Life shows us many such examples, but we all choose to ignore them and move on with our selves, with our bagfuls of worries, dreams, greed, lust, jealousies and myriad other feelings. We are so much interested in our future, our tomorrow that we tend to overlook the today. We only plan ahead and miss out on the great things and moments that we can enjoy now. We are always in a rush to go ahead and not look behind or at the sides. And what if our tomorrow plans don't work out ?? what if we are gone before tomorrow then we didn't live the present and didn't survive the future anyways.
So from now on I have decided to live my present first and advocate the same to everyone else. In this dangerous and dynamic world when anything may happen anytime I am gonna live everyday of my life more.. Slowdown and look around..more.. love more.. laugh more.. cry more.. share more.. care more..And have a full life so that I have no regrets in the end..About not making the most of my life when I had the chance.
1 comment:
one of the best posts i have ever read :)
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