Kal Ho Naa Ho...

The incense sticks burning, the room washed clean. Not a smile on any lips around. Nor is anyone interested in talking to others in the room. Nobody seems to encourage the child that’s trying to walk for the first time. A deep thought rather a reality that’s struck hard seems to affect every person in the room. It’s smell stronger than the incense sticks; it’s touch stronger than that of a mothers caring hands; it’s taste bitter than the neem; it’s sound harder than lightning to bear.But, when it decides to descend nobody can ask her to go back. THE ANGEL OF DEATH. Nobody has a taste of her till the time arrives and none can tell how it is after they taste it. 

“He/ She becomes ‘it’ in a fraction of second.”Life is so unpredictable. So too is death. As a matter of fact, every birth ends in death and when that person dies, as Paulo Coelho says in his ‘Winner Stands Alone’, when a person dies, an entire universe is lost with them. Their experiences of life, their knowledge about things is completely beyond reach; in other words nobody can ever feel or look at the world how the person himself/herself saw or felt.

 People say we never realize someone’s worth until they are gone. But that isn’t the fact. The truth is we miss them, we know them as they are, we know what they are, we know their worth even when they are there. But we do not express it since we know they are with us, they are around us; we assume, we take it for granted that things will never change. We never realize it is all matter of seconds. We never know whom we might lose the next second or whether we will be there that second to lose that someone.

 The absence of a person is felt for a while, but as the days pass ‘Time heals everything’. True, but the deeds that person did or the deeds you did to that person, will it ever fade away from your memory? You may say, to pretend, that you do not remember anything of that sort happening at all; when pointed out; but will you be able to answer the same when you yourself ask the question??

 Just think of that minute when your spouse is no more to say that you love her or him, your parents are gone before you were courteous and kind to them, a very close friend of yours is not here so that you can call them up to just say a ‘Hi’ to feel lighter (though you did not mention it when they were here).Just think of that moment. That moment when you will feel utter darkness around you even when the day is bright, things will really be heavy to bear. Life is a little shorter than you think. Live happily, let others live happily. Help if you can; do not trouble if you cannot. There will definitely be a point in life when you look back and replay your life. Try not to regret but rejoice at that moment.