Are you ready? Flash floods and Burns

Flash Burns.

(This article discusses about philosophy of life, not medical term of a "Flash burn")

Recently I watched a documentary on YouTube about a lady who was in a Cashier of a store, was put on a fire by a psychopathic woman. And this whole footage was captured in the CCTV cameras. The women although survived her injuries had a dramatic change in her life, as now she is a "Burn victim". And all this came out of nowhere as the women who set her on fire was a lady with some mental disorder, just bought a can of gasoline from the same Store. But, just wanted to point you out how quickly the circumstances of our lives can change in matter of seconds like flash burns.

Burns - Unsplash

Last weekend as we were in a camp, some remote part of the country for a group project, we had a little get together. The group members had a long night preparing for a concert held the next day, and decorations were all ready by the time. And just before the chief guest came, the oil lamps were lit, and suddenly there was a fire. It came from nowhere, just with a little bit of wind, fresh decorations were all burnt down, and luckily, the building did not catch up any fire. Yet again proving, things, can happen any moment, and the stable lives that you and I wish can be turned upside down too. How can we survive in this unpredictable world?

Flash Floods

Have you seen flash floods? If you haven't again, there are plenty of YouTube videos of these as well. And you will see at least a couple of them where people being washed away, down unsalvageable waterfalls. I cannot imagine how these happy moments where they explore a waterfall becomes a scene of tragedy in a matter of seconds. Often any water stream can become a deadly trap, when there is heavy downfall or a overflow of an upstream dam. The fact is although we feel safe and we are away from any disaster; we are not. And this is one reason, for me to take a journey to find the meaning of life sooner than later. If I am quite sure I would live up to 70 I can start searching the meaning of life at 60, stopping everything else. Yet I am not sure about flash floods, and maybe tomorrow, or today would be a good day to start my search. How about you?

Hill country - Unsplash

I worked in hill country for a few months last year where there were a lot of mountains with bendy roads. These unprotected slippery roads were meant to be disastrous, And I would take my time driving slowly, yet sometime tiredness overpowers my judgement. Although I was safe, just few weeks back I heard the news of a bus packed with men women and children directly drove down a `100 m slope of these heavenly mountains. I knew it was just a matter of time that something like that would happen, as I have seen how unsafe these roads are. 22 were killed and some were saved miraculously.

Meaning of life.

I am not trying to scare anyone or make you anxious about the future. If you understand every second, we live on earth comes with a risk, and we saw this with the covid pandemic where we were stuck in our rooms watching death counts on "World Meter". Times are good and sunny for where you are and where I am. I had my dinner just a few hours ago and planning to sleep after I write this. But let's remind ourselves one more time, that the life is not just about making happy memories and having fun. We need to understand ourselves before it is too late and I have been trying to open up a discussion with you about this for the last few years. So, I would like to know what happened to you. I am sure you have plenty of experience about life, which are unique and different from my point of view.

Thank you. Have a wonderful day.