Who will cry when you die?

Hello dear friends

I have just been pondering for the past few days about things which are not amusing. So, if you are thinking this will be one of my funny entries, it is not, so you may stop reading now

See, the six words mentioned in the title above have forced me to think about life. The world is a very cruel place. My point is that people in today’s world respect Money and not the person who holds the money. If the Ambanis were to go bankrupt today, they wouldn’t have a single person who would help them out. And this I say by personal experience.

When an average person dies, how many people actually mean it when they say that it was a great loss. Madhur Bhandarkar showed this aspect of humans very well in his movie Page 3, when he shows a certain woman’s funeral day and the ladies over there are discussing what to wear for the following night’s party. That’s exactly what happens in real life too. Harsh but true. People are swimming in pools of money, but do you think you can take it with you after you die.

You die the same way you were born, empty-handed.

People are distinguished as rich and poor but don’t all of them die the same way? Do the rich have some kind of miraculous deaths, I don’t think so.

Alexander the Great, had his hands laid out of his coffin to show that even though he was a great conqueror, he was still leaving this world without a thing, empty-handed.

People become great businessmen, leaders and what not but they all die.

Mario Puzo wrote, “Fools are those who die”. And to that I agree. All of us are fools, its up to you if you want to accept it or not but we still are fools. We consider ourselves great men and women but who is smart enough to dodge death, NONE. You can’t outsmart death, no one can.

All us humans are worthless, money doesn’t say what we are. As a matter of fact, it shows what we are not.

What is the purpose of life? Is it just making money? Is it just becoming great scholars? Is it living to become great selfish people? I don’t know. And I never will understand. What is this life for? I am sure God has a purpose for us but he doesn’t want us to know, yet. Throughout our lives we are restless, searching for something which is not there.

As Mr. Miyagi told Will Smith in Fresh Prince of Bel Air, “… The dragon is from within, and not from without…”. I suppose it was like that. But my point is, that whatever it is that we are searching for, is already within us.

Today, people have become so much cynical. They don’t see the eternal worth of life, they just wanna make money. I agree money is something, but its not everything. There are people, millionaires, who after a certain point of time find money worthless. That’s a totally higher and different plane than that of most of us. The higher you go, the closer you are to God.

There’s this little story I want to share with people who are still reading.

There were two little birdies that were at quite a higher plane than rest of the other creatures. They were above money and material possessions. One day they were walking down a road, and one of the birdies saw this pot of gold coins. He decided to hide it, as he did not want people to fall into greed. He started putting sand over it when the other birdie asked, “Brother, What art thou doing?”

The birdie replies, “ I am putting sand over this pot of gold coins as I don’t want people to be greedy”

So the second birdie says, “ Mitti par mitti daal raha hai?”(you are putting sand on sand?)

I decided to write the last line in hindi as the meaning doesn’t come out the same way in English.

In conclusion, I just want to say that we should realize the eternal worth of life and not just looking at the material aspect of it.

This is not some debate or speech. And I know this entry is very hazy and sketchy, but I suppose I got my point across.

Signing off

G