Moments
One morning I was watching the movie Griffin & Phoenix. It is about two terminally ill patients who do things they like in order to enjoy life to the fullest before they die.
At the end of it, I was thinking:
Why is the notion of bucket lists and the desire to enjoy life before death often associated only with terminally ill patients or individuals nearing death?
Isn’t our death this impending dark cloud over our heads? Do people need a time frame of their death so that they can start enjoying their living days before they die?
Seems like bucket list is as much as a taboo word as death.
A Dead Man’s Suitcase
A man died…
When he realized it,
he saw God coming closer with a suitcase in his hand.
Dialog between God and Dead Man :
God : Alright son, its time to go
Man : So soon ? I had a lot of plans…
God : I am sorry but, its time to go
Man : What do you have in that suitcase?
God : Your belongings
Man : My belongings ? You mean my things.. clothes… money…
God : Those things were never yours, they belong to the Earth
Man : Is it my memories?
God : No. They belong to Time
Man : Is it my talent?
God : No. They belong to Circumstance
Man : Is it my friends and family?
God : No son. They belong to the Path you travelled
Man : Is it my wife and children?
God : No. they belong to your Heart
Man : Then it must be my body
God : No No… It belongs to Dust
Man : Then surely it must be my Soul!
God : You are sadly mistaken son. Your Soul belongs to Me.
Man with tears in his eyes and full of fear
took the suitcase from the God’s hand and
opened it…
EMPTY !!
With heartbroken and tears down his cheek he asks God…
Man : I never owned anything?
God : That’s Right. You never owned anything.
Man : Then ? What was Mine?
God : Your MOMENTS. Every moment you lived was yours.
When we decide to toil to earn money for a ‘better future’, what do we mean exactly? Improved standard of living with lesser stress is better future, yes. But in the process of achieving that better future, did we enjoy ourselves? Or was that enjoyment as well left for when that better future happens?
It may be difficult for most of us to face death or talk about it, be it others’ or our own. But consciously, we know that death is inevitable, and we have to live with the uncertainty about our time of death. That is our life cycle on this earth.
Even in scarcity and poverty, we can make this short lifespan worthwhile, by doing that which we have a heartfelt calling for. That calling is based on our likes, interests and desires. They change with time. But that shouldn’t stop us from going along with that change. Our choices can be, and should be reflective of the change in our calling. Living our calling will help us build more fulfilling moments in our suitcase.
Originally published at beingsocial89.blogspot.com on May 01, 2014.
