The Fear of Impending Death

We all have seen the Earthquake, and the resulting Tsunami, that hit Japan. This brought forward our own fear of impending death by many notches. We all know that death is a eventuality, from the day we are born, we are going to die some day. We visualize that someday very far into the future. We do not visualize it in the immediate future, as today or tomorrow, or now.

We all live our lives according to the plans we make for our future. Every job interviewer asks the question, ‘Where do you see yourself at the end of 5 years?’, or 10 yrs. But they or we never foresee a future with both neither the company existing, nor we, all being washed out by the Tsunami. This brings out our worst unpreparedness of leaving this world. We think we have so much to do, to accomplish, but death is a eventuality. We cease to exist beyond it.

We fear our death, because we are not prepared to leave yet. We think we have so much to do, so much more to plan, and so many people to meet and say goodbye to. Suppose we had only one hour before our deaths, that is what the Japanese people were given warning of, a tsunami coming, and they had to leave their houses and go to higher ground. What can you take with you? What could they (the Japanese) take with them apart from the things that they could easily carry with them? They saw their houses, their hard earned assets getting washed out right in front of their eyes, and they could do nothing.

That is how death is, it comes and claims your life, and no amount of insurance or planning can stop its claim. We have to submit to this eventuality. The Tsunami showed us that we have to be prepared for deaths claim any time. Are we ready?

Have we said our good byes, have we wished our folks well, have we done what we have come here to do? Have we lived our lives? Have we told all those people whom we love, that we actually love them? Have we? Are we ready, to leave every possession we have and move on, to the next world?