Humans have a very long life…very long…Its so long that we fail to respect the good part of it. When a movie is too long to watch, the good part of it gets lost amidst everything. Its something like that. In my close to 3 decades of existence I have also seen the good, the bad & the ugly in relative terms like each one us. But never before have I ever thought of life in human terms as much as I did today; And it didn’t come without a reason. My dad got hospitalized for certain health reasons and they stay a good 2K kms away from me. And when my mom related this to me over the phone explaining the fact that he is not responding to her calls and seems to slipped into some kind of a perpetual slumber, I could feel my knees weaken. I have never heard or seen any of my close ones get into an exigency like this before…Never. With my grand-pops and grand-mom passing away peaceful at a ripe age (Octogenarians), it never hit me that death or loss of your own kind could happen sooner. Never ever have I been brought this close to notice the fact that loss of life could happen. Life lost is life lost. There is no way on God’s green earth that you could ever see them again. Its such a loss.
For a brief period, I was stoned and paralyzed. But somewhere in some corner of my heart, there were this strong feeling that I cannot loose my father now. I cannot. It kept reverberating in my ears for a while and some strange optimism crept in. And my man did survive. The few seconds between my mum stating the news and the inherent sanguinity, I could see my whole life transpiring in front of me. Life did flash by with the memories of my father around me. A man who has supported and guided me in almost every facet of my life is out there in all almost life threatening situation. I just had to see him again. Life being long, can seem very short sometime eh!
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