Electrocution.

I am going to tell you about a little bit of a scary story today and I can

be 100% guarantee you this is an actual situation which I encountered. Maybe it was good

five years ago. I met a young man who was in his mid-twenties, got electrocuted while he was at a funeral.

So, he has attended a funeral with his father far away from home and as a tradition in our country we hoist white flags when there is a funeral. And this young boy with his friends was there hoisting flags and suddenly the iron bar he was holding with the flag has touched the electric wire. And then he got electrocuted while holding this bar. Fortunately, he did not die but unfortunately when I met him, he already had his right leg amputated below his knee and left hand amputated at the level of the wrist.

Electricity

He was transferred from a local hospital because he had refused to amputate his remaining arm and leg. And when saw him, he was in his tears, and he did not want to talk to anyone regarding amputating. I felt so moved and unable to help him, yet I had to explain him the reality that unless we amputate his remaining limb, which was infected and dying and the hand, which was just a charred, putrefied, dead part, we are unable to save his life.

It was essential to get rid of all the dead tissue. And I did I sat with him for half an hour talked about life, shared his sorrow and got him consented for the amputation and he went to theatre, came back with his remaining arm and leg also chopped over. Now there is this young beautiful boy who was well, riding motorcycles, helping his father, ambitious to live a good life with his fiancé. But now unable to walk, even to feed himself he needed his father's help, while he was supposed to help his father when he is old.

So, the life is a strange affair, I wonder what we are searching for in life when we meet such people. I am not saying everyone in our society is going to live in such tragic endings.

But there is always a risk in life.

Before moving further, I would like to know what you think about the incident. At the time of this incident, I did think about it much either. I was more focused on getting him healed and make him walk again on his prosthetic limbs. Unfortunately, there was no support for him to have functional prosthetic hands. They were a poor family. He spent one month in the hospital and after that, I have never seen him again. Yet at various times, when I see or hear a person with electrocution, it almost always reminds me of him. Just like the man who walked on a train and got electrocuted and dropped dead, in India. Someone would say it's tragic, agree that it is tragic.

Life

Then, it's just a couple of months ago, I have written about Paul Alexander, who is also a victim of such a tragedy at young age but lived up to a full potential of a happy life, with only available resources being a movable and thinkable head. Maybe it's a matter of looking at the life in a different angle. Maybe there is even hope of the successful life, even after such a tragedy.

As long as you live, we have to carry our lives to burden of our life.

Are you out of dangers of electrocution?

I have been electrocuted once when I was a kid, I made fascinating circuit to light up a series of bulbs. It was really nice feeling to build something, as a kid, and I wanted to test it.

I put the plug in and got electrocuted the moment I turned on the switch. As I kept the electric circuit on my bare hand, forgetting that it just exposed all the conducting parts directly on my hand. I was a student, but I was fortunate not to get electrocuted with a mega voltage.

But am I away from the risk? not at all, we are never away from the risk of life as long as we are living.

Negative

It raises so many questions when I put the stories like this, just like any newspaper article nowadays. Any news on the TV as it shows so many negative aspects about the life, but there is a different approach all together. And this blog is dedicated entirely for that, which is called Mindfulness approach to life, without thinking about the tragic of life. I can choose to focus my consciousness about this process of moment, where I am apparently away from dangers, resting comfortably in my chair. And having a monologue about life with you, and I realize there is no risk to life at this point. In this exact moment, even better. I could ask the question, what is life and what is the existence anyway.

Hope I didn't scare you too much, but the idea is simple.

As long as you are not having dementia, where you cannot think about yourself, there is always means to persist life until it comes to its natural conclusions about itself. Just focusing on now will make the tragic of life disappear, no matter what it is.