Really, this life is very strange. Nobody knows what will happen to him/her in the next moment. But people do not feel about that. Many people think their life will be always on a smooth path. They will never face any pain or problem in their life. Nothing bad will happen to them at any time. So they feel proud of them because luckily their life goes by smoothly way. But life is not like that. Within a little time, everything can be changed. I am going to narrate a few true incidents where very happily lived people’s lives changed suddenly.
First I am coming to my own life. I am a lifelong bachelor whose life was going smoothly in the company of my parents. I always look after my father and mother as well as my brothers and sister and other family members. I am a very simple living person. My life is very simple. I always pray to lord Krishna that let my parents live long till I die as well as all parents on this earth should live long. But suddenly last year, due to a doctor’s negligence my mother died in the hospital which was the most painful incident in my life. She was right and was suffering from Asthma. She had undergone four times critical head surgery and many other surgeries. But each time she was recovering very fast. As she was mentally strong and very spiritual and positive thinking, she always overcame many difficult health and life problems. I never thought any misfortune would happen to her at any time. But when she was virtually killed by doctors last year, my life was shattered. It is very painful to overcome my maa’s death incident. Everything has changed. I have forgotten a smile from that day. My aged father is heartbroken. We have never thought this sad incident would happen in our life.
Another incident I am narrating. One family happily lived in the same city where I am living. Their family is confined to their father, mother, and their 17-year-old college-going son. Suddenly their son died in a road accident last year. After the accident, he was on the road but nobody helped him to take him to hospital and he died. After some days his father was paralyzed due to a brain stroke. So that boy’s mother was taking care of his father very carefully. During this coronavirus lockdown, he died. The saddest part is that nobody was available to do his last rites. As his son died last year, his wife did the last rites. She lit a fire on his husband’s face by carrying the photograph of his dead son. According to Hindu tradition after the father/mother’s death, generally, the son (nowadays girls also) lit a fire on his parent’s face. But in this case, nobody was there. It is very painful for a wife to lit fire on his own husband’s death. She carried the photograph of his son while lit the fire on his husband’s face as a symbol that she was doing on behalf of his son. This news was heartbreaking. Their family is shattered.
There are many real-life incidents where people’s happy life suddenly gets changed with unbearable pain. So, people should understand that this life is very unpredictable. This proudness, this ego, this vanity are nothing. A happy life can be immersed in tragic pain in the next moment with any mishappenings. So, we should always nurture our human values with all so that at least people should feel that this person’s heart was noble after his/her demise.
