It’s been a long time.. and... It’s the time to publish my first post of 2009..
The year, 2009, as per the Hindu calendar, is stated to be "Virodhi nama samvatsara" meaning - the year of doubts , opposition, change....
My personal observation over the last few days is a common news I'm hearing - DEATH
Death of an acquaintance, death of a relative, death of a friend, death of a superstar......etc. A person’s death makes us fall more in love with the person. No matter how much we disliked the person and their activities, we still connect to the happy moments and all the positive times of their lives. Rare is an occasion that we mention about the negatives.
The question that arises in mind here is : "Do we humans need the death of a person to realise how much the person has contributed to us and directly/indirectly to the society?"
The recent incident which made this question ponder into my brains was the death of "King of Pop" Michael Jackson. As soon as this news was out, everyone(including me) had their messages tag lines filled with ... "We miss you MJ"... "Rest in Peace MJ"... "MJ u will rock forever"... and so on. People have started googling MJ tracks and are youtubing MJ videos.... and also purchasing MJ Albums....
Google declares enormous increase in the Michael Jackson related searches after his death.
Courtesy :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8120324.stm
http://watchnbaplayoffs2009.blogspot.com/2009/06/michael-jacksons-death-floods-google.html
Even I did the same... and it got back all the memories of the good old times of my childhood where I grew up listening to his hits.. And making innumerous attempts to get "The moonwalk" right... but what happened after I grew up.. I had forgotten Michael Jackson... He was used in jokes by many of my friends... "Child Molester", "Fake Nose"... etc. were words used for him... and today when he is no more we all are listening to his songs, dancing to them, and missing all the good times the dude gave us.
"What is the effect of death on the human mind??"
A few days back I was having a conversation with a person very close to my heart and I mentioned... how much has life to show us? We have so many experiences and so much learning from it. I suddenly said "What if I was to die tomorrow?".. My friend was wondering I have lost it and gone cuckoo in the head... But looking back in time... how many people on this earth whom we have known have died and still life for us moves on. If we were to sit and think of all the people we know who have died, I'm sure we would be casual about counting them on our finger tips... but the time and moment they died made us cry for them.. And that is was I call as reliving their life with their death...
It’s just like the rebirth of KING OF POP on 25th June 2009.
One who comes has to go... and would never go unless and until completing all the tasks that he/she is here for.....
I would end this post with a question to you all - "Would my death "really" make any difference to your life?"
Keep breathing and Living!!
Yours forever (even after death)!!
