Today morning started with a very sad news. A collegue in office expired due to H1N1 infection. The demise was very shocking and for a few minutes while I was on my way to office(which is when I got this news), I was thinking how cruel god can be.
The person was very young in his late 20's and had been recently married.
While I was thinking about it, life seemed analogous to the journey over a bridge in a valley at a very high altitude.
Its like a broken bridge which is connecting two sides of the valley at a very high altitude. All the time we are trying to take a step forward and be careful not to slip. There are beautiful millipedes and centipedes which we dont want to stamp. There can be snakes around, and we need to be careful. There are holes also in the rope-way so one has to be careful treading it.Once in a while we raise our heads and take a look at the breath taking scenery of the greenery and water fall.But there is also a person who has huge axe and can cut the rope which supports the bridge anytime without any notice.
The rope-way is the journey of life which we think we need to cover from childhood to youth to old age.The millipedes and centipedes are the smaller daily things which you want to enjoy but not change or disturb.The snake and the holes are the problems - bigger and smaller -which hits you and you have to cope up with.the beautiful scenery is the good moments of life.the person cutting the axe is god and the act of cutting the ropeway is the sudden and shocking demise like my collegues.
I do not know how many can understand the analogy and connect to it, but for a minute I felt so helpless. Death is the ultimate truth , but yet human beings with all their intelligence cannot come to terms with this truth. Everytime it happens it will rip apart the ground on which somebody is standing and it will shock some of us.
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