Are You Prepared for Death?
I don’t know how I would cope up with what I got in my heart today. It came up like a turn in my life – a kind of sudden awakening which rather shook me up.
Though quite a natural phenomenon, but when I once kept on hearing the news of widespread illness and untimely death of people, specially familiar ones, I started to think about it. The fact clearly pierced my heart that the noble person who once drove us to the office when our bus had broken down, died just the next day of his retirement (Later I came to know that he had cancer). Just following the tragedy, one of my relatives who happened to be a major in army and recently and having settled after marriage, suddenly died on the spot in a car accident at the age of 28!
Alas, I feel extremely sorry to reveal further that today my mother has gone to her friend’s house whose brother badly succumbed to paralytic attack. When this much has happened all around me, I wondered, how many people are dying of dengue and other viral attacks everyday…
Sometimes, rather than wanting bigger gifts from life, just to realise that you are alive, that your family is alright feels much enough. And you don’t feel like wanting anything else. That’s what exactly I felt like – thanking God each day for having what I have.
All this altogether gave me a kind of blow as well, that death can happen anytime, that the people, who we love, can catch a disease, can meet with an accident, can get a sudden attack anywhere, anytime. Who knows if I too will die an untimely death?
But this is not the matter of worry. The biggest concern is – Are you prepared to die? Right now? Tomorrow? One month later? One year later? I guess not.
Sounds strange, but don’t you think we should be instead prepared for our fate, for our end? We should keep making efforts towards even the smallest of things we want to do until we hear a ‘yes’ from our heart?
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Today, I took a small step. I have made a document ‘If I die’ in which I compiled a small message for each and every person close to me. I have written a few things which I never told anybody but should not die out as an untold secret. I have also included few passwords and links to my social accounts and database. So that, someday if I am no more without warning, atleast my soul would be happy to have been able to convey its last message to this world. Even if it goes unread.
