Death…another perspective?

His photo with a note beneath circulated through various groups in WhatsApp. Impulsive grief took over many as it was a most untimely news. Had it not been just the previous evening they had spoken to him, maybe the impact would have been lesser…or would it, to those with him, who would have given anything to have him by their side?

Around over 400 people die in accidents in a day but we feel the tingle only when the wave touches the borders of whom we consider as “our”. Hundreds of such incidents pour out as we flip the pages of the newspapers… somewhere around us someone’s losing the warmth of a mother, the breadwinner of the family or the keystones of a happy home. Not us, maybe! But till one day. It could be the person you cordially shook your hand with yesterday or someone you looked up to. Same difference, isn’t it?

There happened an incident when one of our classmates had a little seizure. Upon her mother being called, a priceless moment when they hugged, moved half of us to tears. Some were repentant about a fight they picked up with their mother that morning and others felt blessed!

Maybe the fact that we have to die one day can teach us a lot. Isn’t life like the water droplet on a lotus leaf? Can we expect a single drop to stick on as we watch others slide smoothly? Every next day we have, to live, is a gift showered upon us. So, if it were, would we still have held grudges upon each other for the pettiest of things?