Try this out, take any daily news paper, from its first page, till the last, try reading news that talks about death, accidents, murders, anything thats not natural, now, do a death count from the first page till the last, everyday, any random news paper talks about atleast 50 deaths, caused not naturally. Well, thats not really an eureka invention by me to highlight this, but what disturbs me is that we so easily turn the pages once we're done accepting that someone somewhere was killed, before he deserved a death. We simply have got used to accepting this as a part of life that we humans are eligible to simply, Die ! No thought process goes into it beyond few mere seconds of sympathy, we simply, read on ! Even animals sit together and mourn when they lose someone from their herd. Yeah, Discovery Channel now teaches me Humanity ! That amuses me. Why have we become to used to such things ? Is it coz we see soo many like us around that we dont mind missing few unless we know them personally ? I live in Mumbai, which is a cramped place, everyone from the beggars to the rich fight for a place, we fight to stand, we fight to bare each other. The Suburban Local Trains are a part of Mumbai, its definition, its blood veins literally. Hundreds of people die merely because theyre lazy to climb few steps up and down over a bridge, or might be because their physics isn't that right in that moment, and they get the Time Distance Speed judgement wrongly and they perfectly get the deaths answer. And we Mumbaikars, have also accepted this as a daily part of life, someone dies, people stare, and life continue. We even share a discussion at home on the number of deaths we saw today, its kinda game now. Death is not a problem, its nature, but a stupid death is Human Nature !
I keep wondering, is this a problem with our society where we are a plenty of humans ? Or is this a global trend ? I should try and visit places like Greenland, Northern Russia, where its less populated, and try and sense if that makes the human life more important !
A year back I saw a Granny on her death bed, crying, perhaps asking for a few more days, to spend time with her husband, with whom she lived a happy wonderful years, and that feeling of not being able to see him anymore, and leaving him and her family and loved ones, eating her up from inside, what option did she have ? If you ask me, at that moment that granny appreciated life more than what we "the stupid healthier" ones cant !
Its not our obsession of seeing life after death that makes us less responsible, careless and so less appreciative of life, its merely a sense of lack of regards for this life, an abundance of stupidity and irresponsibility, and in the end, some lack of humanity !
I keep wondering, is this a problem with our society where we are a plenty of humans ? Or is this a global trend ? I should try and visit places like Greenland, Northern Russia, where its less populated, and try and sense if that makes the human life more important !
A year back I saw a Granny on her death bed, crying, perhaps asking for a few more days, to spend time with her husband, with whom she lived a happy wonderful years, and that feeling of not being able to see him anymore, and leaving him and her family and loved ones, eating her up from inside, what option did she have ? If you ask me, at that moment that granny appreciated life more than what we "the stupid healthier" ones cant !
Its not our obsession of seeing life after death that makes us less responsible, careless and so less appreciative of life, its merely a sense of lack of regards for this life, an abundance of stupidity and irresponsibility, and in the end, some lack of humanity !
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