Point to ponder
It was a foggy morning and I looked through the windows
outside. The busy road and the vehicles were not clearly visible as it used to be
on any normal day.
Suddenly my eyes caught up with a flip calendar with a quote
on it. The words on that day’s page read “Never do anything which you do not
wish to do during the last hour of your life.”
I kept on looking at it for a long time. The foggy weather
condition and the traffic situation were no more in my focus and thoughts.
My memories went back to a few years to a hospital room near
the ICU. It was raining and I was consoling a loving family member who was,
unknown to all of us at that time, in the last week of her life. Listening to
my encouraging words, she was showing a brave face, but she knew at that
condition a turnaround was the last possible thing.
That part of the thought ended then and there and it
revolved to the present. Can we really make an effort to have the real essence
of that sentence possible in our day-to-day life? I started thinking deep into
it. How can we bring in a change that can make our last action everlasting?
Not an easy task. After all, no one wants to die fast. So,
is that an excuse to do something unwanted to be given another chance to
correct it?
Ramesh Menon
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