'Expiry Date'...What comes in your
mind when you hear the word 'Expiry Date'?... ‘The End’, 'Dangerous', 'Useless'....
Expiry date is an indication of decline in the quality or effectiveness. We
have always been told to check the expiry date of medicines, food products,
cosmetics, etc otherwise it would be harmful.
Everything has an expiry date. We
decide expiry date of every product. But who decides our expiry date? That's a
very mysterious question. What exactly happens on that particular moment of
expiry, which turns entire useful thing to useless? We dump the expired things,
and same happens with living beings. Though they have been very lovable,
beautiful, kind or helpful; their expiry leads to their devastation. When
someone dies young, people cry wholeheartedly. Because their expiry date was
unexpected. On the other hand, no one regrets when someone dies in old age. Same
thing happens to both but in different age, and that changes all reactions.
Today when
I reached office around 9 AM, I came to know that a colleague in the office who
used sit next to our bay was hospitalized while coming to office. He was
sleeping on the last seat of bus. Someone noticed he was unconscious. The people from the bus tried to wake him up, but he wasn’t responding.
They immediately took him to hospital. We all were worried with that news and was
just praying for him. But within half hour the bad news of his death confirmed.
The whole floor was in shock with this unexpected news. I never talked with
that guy, but he was familiar one, had seen him almost every day in office. That
unexpected death of him melted my heart and again the train of thoughts started
in my mind.
'Death' is the only ultimate truth
of life. Few months ago when I visited my home town I realized this most. I was there
for a week, but from the 1st day there I came across number of news about
someone's death, accident, illness. I was shocked with the news of a close
cousin sister's death. She died in a railway accident in Mumbai. It was very
much horrific to listen those accident details. She was in her 50s.
Unpredictable cruel Death...
On the contrary side I have a
grand-mother-in-law who is in her 90s, she is very much ill, literally waiting
for her death since last 6 months. She was very serious 2 days before, but now
she is fine. Behindhand Death...
I visited almost 6 persons who
are very sick or better to say on the death-bed after going there. Then again
another news... a girl from my sister's college died, on 26th May, in an
accident . She was in her 3rd year engineering, only daughter of her mother.
And her father died on the same date, 26th May, 12 years ago in an accident.
Coincidence of Death...
Before I never thought about death like this.
I never realized she is on the way for me too. I would never know when I will lose
everything, which I am assuming is mine, within a fraction of seconds due to my
death...beauty, money, relatives, love, home, clothes, jewelry, senses,
EVERYTHING... is just nothing in front of her.
'Death' is only ultimate truth of life. So live
your life fullest, don't stuck or become upset of losing something. At the end
that something will be nothing. The only thing you have in hand right now is
your ‘Present’... It’s very precious, hence called as ‘Present’=’Gift’. So
friend, just stop worrying much about future and stop dwelling on unpleasant moments
from past. Be here, in present, Be Happy... Kal Kisne Dekha...
