Am back, again after a long hiatus.......had been putting this off giving no one but myself the same old excuse of a busy schedule.....no time...........but all my excuses were blown into thin air by the rude realization of something I had heard many times.......life is short, live each moment as if it were your last......coz you never know when you will be cut short of your words........
In the past, whenever I had come across this sentence, it just seemed like a small philosophical note on life.......nothing more. But over the last two weekends, the sudden news of the demise of two people, one an ex- batchmate and the other an acquaintance at my office, have forced me to take a closer look at the very painful and ultimate truth in it. One moment, you might be alive and kicking......and the next moment, in just a breath you might be whisked away to the other world. Frankly speaking death has never scared me. Like everyone else, the world on the other side of this thin line between life and death, has been a mystery for me as well. But somehow, I’ve always felt that however it might be, it can never equal this big bad world in the negatives.
Coming back to the point of the realization, that life is a short journey......which is the reason why I am sitting down here today putting down a few words.......making an effort to leave back a few memories (of my thoughts, my feelings etc.) etched in my own personal little history of life, for posterity. Today, I genuinely want to promise myself one thing, and keep up to it to the best of my abilities.......that as long as there is even an inch of a possibility that I can do so, I will never leave anything that comes to my mind undone, and put it off for some other time.......a tomorrow, which on one day might and will turn out to be the day I cross over that finish line.........
So, to sum it up, let me sign off for today with a personal favourite and one of King Khan’s most famous dialogues........ “Haso, Jeeyo, Muskurao........kyu ki kya pata KAL HO NA HO”........ :)
