Today I am not writing any poetry. The thing I am going to talk about cannot be rhymed in one word without feeling the wrenching feeling in my heart. Today I hold my pen, not to bring out sweet or bitter emotions in decorative words, but to just have a healthy conversation…with my friend.
D-E-A-T-H…………A five letter word………just like B-I-R-T-H……..both inevitable facts of life…………..yet we rejoice one and we dread the other. WHY??
It is because of the LIFE between BIRTH and DEATH. Life carries with it emotions, attachments, dreams, promises, and so many reasons to fear its end.
LIFE……..so is it good or bad?
One will say, “Of course good! Without LIFE we wouldn’t be here!”
One will retort, “Then that’s how it should have been! No LIFE, no pain of DYING!”
Ones who have faced DEATH and managed to escape its clenches will say, “LIFE is a boon. It is our 2nd chance.”
But I ask myself: What is LIFE??
As we read in our science text books, “All things that breathe and can move on their own are termed as living things. All those living things who can think rationally are called human beings.”
That explains what we are. But what is LIFE??
Is it like an academic year where you enter a new class, meet your teachers and classmates, make acquaintances, learn lessons, make mistakes, acquire wisdom, share views, be a part of a group, face arguments, laugh over jokes, give exams and then you graduate to the next level?
I think it is.
When you are born, you enter in a new class, with all new people around you; and when your session is complete and you pass all your exams, you graduate to the next level, i.e. DEATH. Funnily if you think you can avoid DEATH by failing your exams then you are wrong as failure creates such pain that DEATH starts feeling welcome again.
On our farewell day, after graduation, we all gather to share the last moments together; to bring back memories and experiences we shared together; and we shed a tear realizing those days will never come back.
Those who live on have the liberty to reminisce; but the one who has just died? What would he be thinking? Would he be wishing he too could join in or is he happy to leave as some feel after graduating from the old class?
So now, is LIFE good or bad?
LIFE is good as it gives us so many experiences and memories to cherish, so many lessons to learn, and so many people with love.
LIFE is bad as it makes us oblivious to the fact that we are not immortals. We live only till we pass our exams. A fact we love to deny. Then we bind other living beings along with us and believe it is their duty to stay in and decorate our lives conveniently refusing the possibility of having to lose them one day. We become selfish.
When someone dies out of suffering and pain we cry our hearts out demanding, like a 3 year old, for them to come back to us as we cannot live without their contribution in our lives. We become so addicted to that person that in grieving our loss we forget how relived he must have felt to have been freed from his pains.
When someone dies while he was perfectly fine, then too we pout and complain his ‘unreasonable’ and 'un-timely' death, not realizing that he was fortunate to have left before having to face sufferings and pain.
Such is LIFE. Good and bad.
What say, my friend?
D-E-A-T-H…………A five letter word………just like B-I-R-T-H……..both inevitable facts of life…………..yet we rejoice one and we dread the other. WHY??
It is because of the LIFE between BIRTH and DEATH. Life carries with it emotions, attachments, dreams, promises, and so many reasons to fear its end.
LIFE……..so is it good or bad?
One will say, “Of course good! Without LIFE we wouldn’t be here!”
One will retort, “Then that’s how it should have been! No LIFE, no pain of DYING!”
Ones who have faced DEATH and managed to escape its clenches will say, “LIFE is a boon. It is our 2nd chance.”
But I ask myself: What is LIFE??
As we read in our science text books, “All things that breathe and can move on their own are termed as living things. All those living things who can think rationally are called human beings.”
That explains what we are. But what is LIFE??
Is it like an academic year where you enter a new class, meet your teachers and classmates, make acquaintances, learn lessons, make mistakes, acquire wisdom, share views, be a part of a group, face arguments, laugh over jokes, give exams and then you graduate to the next level?
I think it is.
When you are born, you enter in a new class, with all new people around you; and when your session is complete and you pass all your exams, you graduate to the next level, i.e. DEATH. Funnily if you think you can avoid DEATH by failing your exams then you are wrong as failure creates such pain that DEATH starts feeling welcome again.
On our farewell day, after graduation, we all gather to share the last moments together; to bring back memories and experiences we shared together; and we shed a tear realizing those days will never come back.
Those who live on have the liberty to reminisce; but the one who has just died? What would he be thinking? Would he be wishing he too could join in or is he happy to leave as some feel after graduating from the old class?
So now, is LIFE good or bad?
LIFE is good as it gives us so many experiences and memories to cherish, so many lessons to learn, and so many people with love.
LIFE is bad as it makes us oblivious to the fact that we are not immortals. We live only till we pass our exams. A fact we love to deny. Then we bind other living beings along with us and believe it is their duty to stay in and decorate our lives conveniently refusing the possibility of having to lose them one day. We become selfish.
When someone dies out of suffering and pain we cry our hearts out demanding, like a 3 year old, for them to come back to us as we cannot live without their contribution in our lives. We become so addicted to that person that in grieving our loss we forget how relived he must have felt to have been freed from his pains.
When someone dies while he was perfectly fine, then too we pout and complain his ‘unreasonable’ and 'un-timely' death, not realizing that he was fortunate to have left before having to face sufferings and pain.
Such is LIFE. Good and bad.
What say, my friend?
We’ll never find that out, coz he is gone…….forever.
Muttaqeem Fadra.....
My Beloved Friend....
May You Rest In Peace....
Miss You....
