ARE
YOU STILL ALIVE?
Sometimes I want life to be a pencil
so that bad memories could be erased! Sometimes I want it to be smooth flowing
Gel pen! But life indeed is a question paper where only ball pens are allowed!!
No erasers, and only rarely gel pens!!
In this hustling bustling, tech-savvy
and a fast paced world, there are times when you are not living but actually
surviving or rather passing each day as it comes! And life seems a tepid affair
and our clairvoyance says- ‘The grass is greener on the other side!’ What this other
side implies is our destination after life. For Ramesh, the other side means ‘swarga vaatika’; for
Imran it means ‘Jannat’ and for Joseph it means ‘Heaven’!
But even after accepting the fact
that we’re born to die, does it mean- ‘We shouldn’t live?’ Ask a terminally ill
cancer patient about to die, the value of 1 day or even 1 hour! And ‘PRECIOUS’
is what he would tell you! Malady is detrimental but for him it turned out to
be an eye-opener! In 25 years of his life, he hadn’t seen the real world since
it was all smoky! His eyes had failed to marvel at the
sight of sun-rise and dew drops; his ears had failed to catch the melodious
voice of cuckoo chirping in those distant mango orchards! His hands were
oblivious of the delicacy of the flowers and butterflies; his heart, unaware of
the word called- Empathy!!
It was only 3 months back that he was
diagnosed with a terminal last stage lung cancer! The chemotherapy having
failed, he was forced to swallow the bitter pill-Death, which was approaching
insidiously but inevitably! He died today morning, a somber death but in his
valedictory, in his diary, he wrote-
“For the last 90 days, 2160 hours and
each of the 12960 minutes to be precise, I was actually breathing, actually seeing,
actually living and finally realizing what ‘LIFE’ actually was! I might die any
moment but thank you Cancer for making me realize the value of each priceless
breath!”
Friends, the question really is do we
need to get afflicted by a malady to understand the melody of life? Do we need
Death to make us realize the value of each precious moment?
It’s upon us to decide whether we
want to LIVE or merely sleep our existence to death?
Marvellius piece of writing!! One must understand the meaning of life & try to live the life to the fullest extent rather than waiting for some tragic event to realize its importace.
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DR.TANUJA JOSHI
Thank u so much Tanu aatya.. :-)
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