By: Lubnah
Abdulhalim
A LIFE OF NO END AND NO RETURN
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Death is one of
the most dreaded and hated things in life. We all don’t want our loved ones to
part away from us and we all wish we could have our parents for as long as
possible. But death was never predictable, whereas the old woman whom everyone
thought would die in a few days, lived longer while the teen just got involved
in an accident and passed away. That’s how unpromising tomorrow is because it
may never come. Many tend to live in fear on how death would come to them.
Would they suffer cancer, diabetes, AIDS or maybe a stroke would be the reason
of their death? Or would their death be sudden like someone just slept and
never woke up or he had an unexpected accident or he slipped down the stairs and
died? We all wish we could know how our end would be and maybe prevent
ourselves as much as possible from what is to cause our death.
If given a
choice, majority of people would choose never to die and want to live forever.
As for the rest few who would choose death, then it is probably the holy ones
for believe they have a chance to meet their Lord and probably the ones who are
facing so much misery in their lives and they think that death would be a
relief to them. But maybe we should take a minute and picture our lives without
death. Many would like the idea of such a life; all of us with our families
living happily ever after, right? This is the first thought that would come to
mind but there is definitely more to it.
If death never
existed, that means that we would all be living with our fathers and
grandfathers and great grandfathers and our forefathers! Just imagine the chaos
that would be there. Father is suffering from cancer, grandfather is blind,
great grandfather has Alzheimer; all in one house. Your father needs to be
taken to hospital, grandfather needs you as his support around the house, great
grandfather keeps forgetting and you need to change his elderly diapers. Not
forgetting that your wife still needs you to provide a meal on the table and
your children need to be picked from school.
Our forefathers
would be walking in the streets like zombies with so much amazement and shock.
The noise, the many cars going to and fro, the very tall buildings will all
make them feel dizzy. But that’s not all, they see everyone talking with this
gadget they call the cell phone and they imagine everyone is going crazy. Since
our forefathers are expected to be almost like monkeys in the evolution theory,
journalists would surround them in frenzy and the light from the cameras would
make them panic a bit more. They would want to interview them day in day out to
know how life really was during their prime ages.
More children
are born every day and we are so occupied not knowing whether to tend to the
new born baby or the fore fathers who need you too. If we are living in
billions right now in the world, then definitely statistics would be filled
until people get tired and decide to record the numbers of people as ‘to
infinity’.
People like
Hitler too would still be alive and maybe we would by now have had our ‘world
war 102’ and the difference would be that no one dies in the wars, just
injuries and defeat. Terrorists would all be busy trying to terrorize the whole
world and the previous presidents would be flocking to vie for the presidential
seat again; so probably the late president Kenyatta would still be alive and
maybe he would have gone against his own son in the elections. How interesting!
Maybe death is
really important and needed in our lives because the wisdom behind it is quite
great. In the life of no end and no return, lies more misery than when we
encounter death.
