Life and Death

Of late I have been hearing a lot about “life and death”. Two weeks ago while I was leaving for office, a Christian couple; quite old, around 60 -65 yrs of age; came to our house. They were actually going to everybody’s house and distributing pamphlets which contained a few things like “Do I believe in GOD?” “Salvation” “Does GOD help you when you in trouble?” “Re-birth” “What after death” etc. So it was all about life and death. They asked me a few questions. I could answer about life but had no idea about death. I told her that about death the only thing I know is that when people die, we lose them forever.

In Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood was asked about life and death where it is shown that he knew more about death than life. A friend of mine asked me if I have ever felt in my life; maybe for a moment; that I ll die. Another friend told that he had experienced once how it feels when you die. You see, a lot of discussions.

You earn a lot all your life; money, fame, name, respect, love; but when it comes to death, nothing helps. They say when you die you take nothing with you. Yes; you die lonely. For some your death will be a loss of life, for some just the loss of your name and some will not even know that u existed. May be if u create some history, many will remember you. But still there will be a few who would not even know your name. Like the maid at my house in Baroda doesn’t know who Sardar Patel was.

Some say life do exists after death, some say a new journey begins at death, some talk about “Moksha”, some about re-birth. With all due respect to everybody’s views, I say I believe in just one thing “U live just one life”. May be because I haven’t experienced anything like “death” or “after death” and if at all I ve experienced I don’t remember J
So I believe in just one thing- this is my only life.

I can’t say how much life everybody has, but we should make the most of the time we have. Doing good to many and some bad to may be a very few ;). Enjoying every moment to the fullest. Loving the loved ones as much as we can.

Hmm.. actually I don’t know why I wrote about “life and death”. May be I gave it a thought because of the discussions around me. And as such, I have nothing to convey. Just a realization –
“There is a more important thing than ‘life and death’. And that thing is living”