Death — the enlightenment anomaly
‘ Live life to the fullest’, ‘ The purpose of our lives is to be happy’, ‘ Live, laugh, love’ — all these expressions stem from the fact that life has a definitive outcome. The only incongruity in an otherwise smooth flow of expectations, exertions and consequences. The irony, however, all and sundry being aware still tread the opposite trail of all that should actually be — live whole heartedly. If people could experience this dark notion even for a negligible extent in their lives before the actuality, the whole attitude of the world would be capsized but that’s just wishful thinking.
Being to cremations/entombment has always been a self-probing exercise, blowing out the cobwebs from the delusional intellect. The solitary purpose of being there is to bid the best of voyages to the traveler and getting the detachment hardened in the head. The invincibility gets inhibited but then, there are individuals who don’t entertain the uncertainty of life — deliberations on how their work and agendas are being hampered due to certain government policies or dishonesty of others have been a part and parcel of such gatherings. It just amazes me that the departure of one doesn’t embed a transformation in the routine understanding of all assembled around.
A decade or a generation ago, life wasn’t as harsh as the current times — compassion and sympathy existed happily along with toil. Much of it is by virtue of modernization leading to corporate structuring of everything. While it has its own angels and demons, that’s not what this write up pertains to. People are terrified of sharing their accomplishments as they dread invoking jealousy and their sufferings for the fear of embarrassment with the rest of the data being well insured under trade guidelines. Even the finest of friends, if there is such a concept still in existence, do not have the trust equation that is indispensable for any relation to subsist. In the battle to keep the facts secured, the discretion levels have gone errant further than even the CIA standards. What this has entrenched, is a persistent incredulity for the population in general.
Working around this to bring a change could seem archaic and even futile to us but would easily be touted as an era defining alteration in terms of the ROI, the world order and peace it could bring about to the billions worldwide. The tough epoch taking a toll on millions should work as a wake up cry with the realization that wealth, structure and secrecy is all a big hoax and the wasted time could still be rejuvenated by spending it with oneself, the family and the friends. Leading a life-cycle which sums up to a naught at culmination, be it a well-off guy or a deprived, could have been turned into something worthwhile. Be friendly, be calm, be helpful, be cheerful, be fun, be loving, be trustful — in short, be everything other than what has been imparted by the roughed up world.
One of the most profound, yet confusing scenes in The Matrix where the architect states ‘ Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. ‘. What this is, is an invitation to be the eventuality to an existing system before all comes crashing down with the grand finale.
