The final curtain came down for BIL J. He lost his battle against cancer this early morning.My wife and me went to see him last night after hearing about his condition turning bad. He was at his bed side with all the machines hooked up to his body and he was having difficulty breathing. Intermittently, his eyes will suddenly close but he was aware of all the people around him and he constantly asked them to go home to rest. After more than an hour with him and his wife G, we bid him good night and the usual " see you tomorrow" wish. Before leaving, I hold his hands and he gave me a very firm grip and he just wave his hand to say good bye, Yes, that was his final good bye. In the next two hours after we left him, he was gone.
I was at his wake to-night and everything look so meaningless at that particular moment. He was a successful businessman and have been very careful with his health and he was gone well before his time at early sixties. Looking back, why are we so caught up with the rat race and runing in a marathon thinking that we would live forever? We should stop and re-focus our priorities. Are we running for the sake of running or with a purpose? Do we know where we are going to or just running round in circles wasting our effort and time.
What is our purpose in life? Just to make money, eat good food, have all the material wealth or the best thing in life? However, money can really make the world go round but at the end of the day is emptiness. Everything is so self centered and self glorifing.We always want to prove that we are better than the others or more successful than others. Does it really matter when you are always the best ? Of course, personal perfection is a good thing but are you happy or still feeling empty ? Try giving or sharing, the experience could be different and you could end up finding back your long lost self. In the process of growing up, you lost your innocense and it blurs your awareness.
Our lives are inter-conected. If other people are happy, we are happy or vice versa.By taking care of others and makin gsure that they are happy can have positive effect on our health and happiness. Take little steps by yourself and check your inner feeling about such activities and if your are happy then move on jn that direction.
The end can be here but the memories of your good work and the influence you have in other people's life will live on through generations to come. It does not just end with death.
Namaste.
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