This post is not meant to be sad or one of dejection. In fact it is a thought, a reality or a proablity that I have been doddling with for quite some time now.
Through all my years, all 27 of them, everytime things went wrong or dint go my way, I was told by friends, family and sometimes by movies and books that for every bad thing that hapens, life compensates with something good. I grew up with this belief and took this concept for granted and waited for a whole lot of compensations. But what got me thinking about this was when I read about tragedies that have happened to people over time across geographies which could not have been compensated for. History tells us a lot of stories and a whole lot of them are about tragedies that have happened to mankind and for most of them there has been only pain and suffering. The Nazi concentrations camps, the world war, sati system, slavery, civil wars... the list can be endless.. Then I read about biographies of people Parveen Babi, Rekha beautiful people with tragic lives. Yes there can be arguments that some of the choices they made caused them pain but overall there has been uncompensated suffering. Two incidents that has happened in my time... the Taj bomb blast and the Jill Meager murder case which really shook me up to the reality of tragedy.
Im not saying that we should all live in the hopelessness of a happy ending, just that a happy ending cannot be taken for granted. So many of us today complain about little pain and setbacks forgetting that no one really promised that all wishes will be fulfilled and that there are deeper and stronger wishes that god needs to fulfill across humanity. So my message is to count our blessings and pray for a happy ending!
Through all my years, all 27 of them, everytime things went wrong or dint go my way, I was told by friends, family and sometimes by movies and books that for every bad thing that hapens, life compensates with something good. I grew up with this belief and took this concept for granted and waited for a whole lot of compensations. But what got me thinking about this was when I read about tragedies that have happened to people over time across geographies which could not have been compensated for. History tells us a lot of stories and a whole lot of them are about tragedies that have happened to mankind and for most of them there has been only pain and suffering. The Nazi concentrations camps, the world war, sati system, slavery, civil wars... the list can be endless.. Then I read about biographies of people Parveen Babi, Rekha beautiful people with tragic lives. Yes there can be arguments that some of the choices they made caused them pain but overall there has been uncompensated suffering. Two incidents that has happened in my time... the Taj bomb blast and the Jill Meager murder case which really shook me up to the reality of tragedy.
Im not saying that we should all live in the hopelessness of a happy ending, just that a happy ending cannot be taken for granted. So many of us today complain about little pain and setbacks forgetting that no one really promised that all wishes will be fulfilled and that there are deeper and stronger wishes that god needs to fulfill across humanity. So my message is to count our blessings and pray for a happy ending!
