As I add on more miles to my car of life; life brings me closer to it's mortal nature. The journey does have a destiny and the horizon does exists.It's the fuel, engine and roads chosen which determines where the halt happens.
Well, before getting further into analogy let me get into the chemistry behind these thoughts. I realized all the above when I suffered loss of a near family friend; whom I had recently met and am never going to meet again. It's such an unexplainable feeling of not being able to see a person again and incapability of repairing the loss.This is the point where the human power ends and I start loosing faith in "Nothing is impossible". Nothing can re-create the person, the moments and the special bond shared.
Even though life is so mortal; there is something that remains immortal.Thoughts start drilling into memories and brings back a flood of memories in form of words, actions, stories. Wow, the moments that were so ordinary at that point suddenly have such a special place in my life! Now I understand better why capturing memories is an "involuntary" action and am so glad that our mind is not judgemental in storing them. As the memories start playing back, I start reliving them and ahhh .. wish I had lived it in a better way and expressed my appreciation. Each memory adds fuel to my life and inspires me to handle relationships better and express my feelings.
So; even when people leave the world; they leave behind such living memories in hearts and minds of countless people. Some I guess; they must not have ever imagined they would leave an impact on, and a transition of ordinary to special moment would occur. During lifetime we focus more on imperfection of person but at this point, imperfections also become perfect by the fact that even with imperfections; you had a living person to count on. This definitely makes me a better person and careful about small acts, each moment I spend and the way I respond to each call. Reminds me of a line from song "If tomorrow never comes" by Ronan Keating: "Avoid the circumstance where there's no second chance". It's crazy and it's weird but it does scare me to say "Good Bye", the feeling does come "Will you see me again?", "Did I make this moment special enough?" ..
The car of life needs fuel of memories, rich relationship, special bonding and never the less special deeds to add to fuel of your near and dear ones.
This quote from the legendary poet Kabir summarizes it all - "When you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced, live your life in such a way that when you die; the world would cry while you rejoice".
