This is just a thought

Why does it leave us so shaken? They leave like everybody has to one day, but no, we still don’t get it, at least for that while. Why haven’t we learnt yet? We do learn to accept it over time, but the spaces that get left behind never get filled. We just cover them with consolations. What do we fear the most our own death or the death of the ones we care for? Who are the people who reconcile with death, do they really do it? They say life moves on, but it isn’t the same life at all. Death changes it. Death plays such a big role in our lives, in our existence. Death isn’t ultimate, it’s ever going. It’s a process. It doesn’t involve individuals it involves people. It’s one of the biggest events in people’s lives. It’s not the last event of life, it’s something that also happens at last. It seems I have strayed way too out of line here. When I started this one I had a doubt in my mind. That doubt is about death. The fact is we don’t like death. And the fact is we can’t avoid it. Does this mean we stop fighting? Does our conscience really approve of it? Maybe death isn’t good at all. Many people fought for causes they couldn’t fulfil. Does this mean they shouldn’t have fought in the first place? Bhagat Singh and many people before and after him fought for a seemingly lost cause at that time and they died fighting and achieved nothing significant. But we still remember them with reverence, don’t we? May be it’s the same with death. May be all the living things have been fighting it for like ever and are not making any significant progress. And maybe that’s why humans were made. The current fact is everything that is born has to die. The colossal stars can’t avoid it. Nothing ever has been able to evade death. But nothing has ever thought of death in such a way. May be us the humans are the first thing that have finally come into existence with that ability to understand life and death the way nothing has ever done before. Maybe that’s the meaning of our existence- to come around this inevitability. Maybe the people who are accepting death are the ones looking for shortcuts maybe they don’t have the mettle to stand their real ground and are intimidated by the formidability of death and lay down their arms and surrender. Maybe weak are not those who cling to life and material pleasures but those who give it up too easy. Craven and cowards are those who give themselves up to it and lie always in its looming shadow. Those who talk always of death’s inevitability and not life’s beauty. They say life’s ephemeral. Maybe be they’ve been corrupted. Maybe all those messengers weren’t that of god; may be they were of death. Maybe god doesn’t exist, it’s just a fictional character made up by those messengers to convince us to accept the supremacy of death. Maybe we’ve all been deceived so far. Maybe it just occurred to me. Maybe we all know it and that we are only made to think otherwise by the prevailing ideology. We are made to feel bad if we prefer materialism over “spiritualism”. Maybe it’s all tricks. Maybe it’s all just the other way round. Come to think of it. Ask why it can’t be? Doesn’t life and living things look so beautiful? Don’t we dread death? Don’t we feel really bad when someone dies? We say that some good person didn’t deserve to die. Why, is death something bad? I know a lot of people and scriptures say a lot of different things. But what do our basic instinct say of it? We instinctively reject it. Maybe we don’t believe in what we believe in. Maybe we only pretend to believe in it because we are made to. Because we are expected to.