Life, as we call it, what is it actually? A never ending span of unfulfilled dreams and desires or a very short period of futile return less efforts which ends before we realize it has started?
A child is born, sweets distributed all over the colony, happy news accompanied with so many tears of joy. The child grows up gradually, and grows up fine and nice. The parents are grateful to god for giving them such an obedient, good natured and hard working kid. They leave no stone unturned to give their child just the future that they had dreamed for him. They stay awake nights together when their child is ill, the sacrifice their own festivities to buy new clothes for their child until the day the child starts feeling guilty. He starts thinking, “my parents are making so much sacrifices for me, what am I doing for them? I’ll get a good job, earn a good living and give my parents back everything they have sacrificed for me. Their sleepless nights, will I replace with nights of peaceful tension free sleep. Their gift less festival will I replace with anything they want from me. I’ll be a prop of their old age and will fulfill all my duties”. And thus the child grows up. Gets a good score, earns him a good job and decent enough money to fulfill his goal. Then all of a sudden, he hears that his mother has met with an accident and he rushes homeward. Next morning she’s no more. I do not think this is a very unnatural thing to happen. The mother was born and she had to die. But the question I ask myself is what the child’s fault was? That he desired to give his parents a better life for all that they had done for him? That he loved his parents? Every body in the world will die some day, but why did this young man lose his mother before he could give her the joy and satisfaction that he wanted to?
We talk in many languages and many sentences. Such as I’m writing this entire damn blog for may be nobody to read. But God talks with us in only two words and no one can say anything after that. Firstly birth and secondly death. I said this and now I justify. Consider a man who’s trying to ask his boss for a leave. In 80% cases, he won’t be sanctioned. However, if a man goes and say his wife’s conceived a child and he needs to go, I don’t think there’ll be anybody to deny him this right. Similar for death. If a relative or near and dear dies it’s like there’s nothing left to say after that.
I know god is too busy administering the universe and has very limited time to deal with individual prayers. But if my prayers reach him ever at all, then I’d beg him to please let all persons fulfill their noble desires before putting the full stop. Let good people get the opportunity to do good. Let noble motives be rewarded with noble opportunities.
However, why this doesn’t happen already is really my “unanswered question”.
