As I lay in bed on this cool spring morning, a blocked artery, an angioplasty procedure later, I still find it difficult to believe in God! Not that I am not thankful for this fresh lease of life and to be able to see my son grow up, and be by my ageing parents and to grow old with my wife. I am thankful to science. I am merely paying the price of not paying enough attention to logic and reason. I should have deduced this near fatal consequence but I didn't. I have no one to blame but my own pseudo epicurean belief about life. I can't say I am any wiser, but I certainly will take time out to appreciate the finer aspects of life, devote enough time to do things I love to do-write more often, sing more often, sketch more often,visit those foreign shores, learn to play the piano (something that I have always wanted to do)......one lifetime is not enough!
No, I am not scared, no I am not any less radical, no I have not removed my eyes from the class enemies, no I have not removed my fingers from the trigger...but yes I am perhaps a little less angry with the world, a little more careful, a little less 'anti' god damn everything under the sun. Friends, show no sympathy, just quietly learn a lesson here!
No, I am not scared, no I am not any less radical, no I have not removed my eyes from the class enemies, no I have not removed my fingers from the trigger...but yes I am perhaps a little less angry with the world, a little more careful, a little less 'anti' god damn everything under the sun. Friends, show no sympathy, just quietly learn a lesson here!
3 comments:
It’s shocking to learn that it happened to you Neelav….a person like you…
It’s okay if you find some of your tenets shaken…. do not be afraid to shed them coz that’s how new life emerges out of old redundant cocoon.
It’s okay to appreciate science….but the ones using it are only humans.
It’s okay to give reason/logic a skip……so long as you resolve to take good care of yourself hereupon.
It’s okay refuse the wisdom if it only gives us hindsight….let us reach out for simpler pleasures in life.
One lifetime’s too short a time....why waste it thinking about people you don’t like. Just smile and bring smiles in the face of anything.
Your son, wife, parents and people like us would tirelessly revel in the fact that you are with us today Neelav and we can’t thank GOD enough.
Celebrate life, my friend and live happily hereafter!
Very well said rajib da.
Very well put Rajibda... I agree.
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