Passed On

This is a post that is really close to me and I hope it inpires you like it has inspired me.

Death. The word itself brings the images of reapers, cars, trucks, blood to our mind which makes it one of the most awkward things to talk about along with sex and menstrual cycles. And it is for good reason that we hate death, it has a reputation of taking away people that mean a lot to us before time and without reason.

How often have we heard people say "Why does God do this to 'good' people?" and we might have also heard the weirdest explanations to it. But truth be told, death is not whats scary. Its life. Life is what kills you. Death is just an end, a result of a prolonged illness or a clumsy but fatal accident. Sometimes, its a shocking twist of events leading you to finally accept the fact that no one is going to escape out of it alive.

In life, we love people, we tolerate some and we outright hate some. But you can't deny the fact that when someone dies, everyone gets a little sympathetic.

Everyone feels a little bad for the guy who passed on and feel bad for his family who have to survive without him. Even if you hated the sight of that person, his/her death would make you feel sad and dim. Death is finality, all your relations with people end. No matter what relation you had with them, they end and all you are left with is memories and final words.

I just lost a colleague recently. At the young age of 25, when his heart should be beating passionatly for romantic and exhilirating things, it just stopped abruptly. I was never close to him, we just tagged along in the final year project of my graduation college, but what limited time I spent with him, it was fun. It has been nearly a year since I spoke to him and everytime I did, he asked me for some favour irritating me in the process. Now, I can never speak to him again.

This tells you that its not us who decide whom to speak to, whom to befriend or whom to marry. Its already decided and all we do is focus on our petty ideals about people and their behavior. We don't realize that any of our words could be our final words and we need to value it. We need to speak better and say what we want instead of waiting for the right time or the appropriate words. Else when the time does arrive you might have the courage, but the person you want to speak to might have passed on.

Spread a little love. You never know when you might not be able to.