A story that had come in the newspapers, a couple of days back, talked of a car with - if I recollect correctly - four people which was speeding down the highway when a huge tree happened to fall on it. The gentleman, behind the wheel, died instantaneously while the other three had escaped miraculously without even a scratch. The car is badly mangled and needs extensive repairs. The incident had taken place somewhere off Chandigarh.
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I was reminded of another story that had hit the print media quite a few years back and the incident had taken place somewhere in the Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh. A teenaged boy was cycling towards his school when, all of a sudden, a large python had slipped off the clutches of an eagle passing by above. The scared reptile fell on the hapless boy, bit him in its dazed and frightened state killing him instantaneously and died along with him.
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A family of five - the parents and three children - had planned to go on a long drive around eastern India and had decided to visit as many religious places, as possible, enroute. As they completed almost the entire journey and was left with just one more temple to visit, the eldest son got a recall from his office to return to work. He, then, bade his bye and left the family to continue with their drive. Soon after, the car met with a ghastly accident when it hit a long distance bus head on, killing all the four occupants instantaneously.
Tailpiece.
What does one make out from the three totally unconnected stories? Nothing, I'd say.
But delving deeper into the philosophy of life, the end arrives unmistakably and on time. It's just waiting for the script - yes, written by the master script-writer - to come to its end!
Otherwise, how does one explain the deaths of the driver(in the first story), the boy(in the second) and the remaining four of that family(in the last)? One gets the creepy feeling that in each case, the protagonists had arrived on their farewell stage to act out their ends!!
An after thought!
Life, indeed, is beautiful, mysterious and a great teacher!
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I was reminded of another story that had hit the print media quite a few years back and the incident had taken place somewhere in the Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh. A teenaged boy was cycling towards his school when, all of a sudden, a large python had slipped off the clutches of an eagle passing by above. The scared reptile fell on the hapless boy, bit him in its dazed and frightened state killing him instantaneously and died along with him.
* * *
A family of five - the parents and three children - had planned to go on a long drive around eastern India and had decided to visit as many religious places, as possible, enroute. As they completed almost the entire journey and was left with just one more temple to visit, the eldest son got a recall from his office to return to work. He, then, bade his bye and left the family to continue with their drive. Soon after, the car met with a ghastly accident when it hit a long distance bus head on, killing all the four occupants instantaneously.
Tailpiece.
What does one make out from the three totally unconnected stories? Nothing, I'd say.
But delving deeper into the philosophy of life, the end arrives unmistakably and on time. It's just waiting for the script - yes, written by the master script-writer - to come to its end!
Otherwise, how does one explain the deaths of the driver(in the first story), the boy(in the second) and the remaining four of that family(in the last)? One gets the creepy feeling that in each case, the protagonists had arrived on their farewell stage to act out their ends!!
An after thought!
Life, indeed, is beautiful, mysterious and a great teacher!
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