The
time distance between life and death is immeasurable
Yes, a
doctor can say that it will take two years for a cancer patient to live
How
many days, hours, or minutes more does the person have to live?
I
think technology has made it possible to predict some of these variables.
How
many seconds will it yet take a person to live before he finally dies
How
many heartbeats do YOU have until that final beat?
There
is no measurement for that split second between being alive and being dead
That
awfully short distance between life and death chills me to my bones
It
only means that anyone can die at any time
You
could see a man crossing a road one moment
And at
the blink your eye, he could be laying lifeless by that same road, having been
run over by a moving vehicle
To
you, the time it took for you to blink was the difference between life and
death
To the
dead man, the time difference is too short to be measured
Just
like snapping a pencil in two
What's
the time difference between a pencil in its whole state and that same pencil in
its snapped state?
I guess we can liken this to the essence of
our much-valued lives
After
all, we are nothing but pencils in the hand of our creator.
And
what is the moral of the story?
Appreciate
life
Make
the best use of it
Your
life is a gift from God
The
only way u know u are treat a gift right
Is
when you know that the giver is pleased with the way you treat it
If I
wrote every thing that encompasses the extent of our underutilization of this
gift of life,
It
wouldn't be satiated by all the paper and ink in the world
Again,
life is too short to waste it on minute arguments
Life
is too short to lose certain things you would have gained from that person
at
that moment you chose not to talk to him or her
Sometimes
I wonder to myself
"imagine
what you would have gained from each other if u weren't keeping malice"
Yeah,
Call me an opportunist
But I
know you know its just plain fact.
Another
question that comes to my mind as I write this is "Does life become
death?". Is death simply the absence of life…just as darkness
substantiates the absence of light?
I held
up two of my fingers one from each hand. I labeled one finger
"life" and the other
"death". I held them apart,
assuming that the gap I created between them was the initial distance
between being born and dying. Life and death. As we live our lives, we move
closer to death. Death does not come close to us! We actually do move closer to
death! Little wonder that they say "we 'live' our lives"… and people
'meet their deaths'. Okay, :) … that was some sort of digression… back to the
main story; So I slowly brought my two fingers to meet each other. And then I
wondered if it was possible that life actually went into death and then death,
into life such that life became death and life never went away. It really is
just some random thought.
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