Life is certainly unpredictable in many aspects of our lives. The person whom you are sitting next to currently, or whom you have spoken to one minute ago could be the last time he or she would sit or speak with you. Yes. And I mean for eternity.
Have you ever wondered if someone would live long enough to hear you say the words “I forgive you” or “I love you” after you two had a tiff? What if they don’t ? Would the above few phrases mean a whole lot more then – if you had taken the initiative to take the first step to apologise or condone?
There are myriad of extremities to life that one’s greatest misery can actually be minute to others. But that doesn’t mean that one worry is heavier than the other. Both, I presume, would have equal weightage and importance to the respective individuals. Just that, when both are measured by the same individual, who suffered a misery of a larger scale, like a loss of a kin, it would seem that the other misery, lets say the failing of a test, would seem somehow rather insignificant.
I have heard a lot of dreadful news recently, from the large scales, right down to the minor news. However, I cannot deny that all of them have affected me greatly. So much that perhaps the reasons for some the bad news is actually the aftermath of the previous batch of ominous news I received.
People face many different trials in life. But from the past few weeks, I have learnt that no man lives without affecting another man’s life at least once. If you have any worries right now, you may want to take a closer look as to how many is actually a result of problems caused by others. You may be surprised to find out that these worries are actually capable of taking up to more than one quarter of the entire collection of worries you have.
So don’t ever say you are independent. Because you are not. Because we all are not. Not Bill Gates, not Hilary Clinton, not Tony Blair and certainly not Pres. George Bush.