The Braveheart

The last week has been pretty upsetting at the same time busy. I was in receipt of two bad news, both that involved road accidents. One incident that happened with my close friends who was hit over on to the other side of he highway by a car driving at 80 mph on a Highway in Atlanta. Thankfully, he escaped with minor injuries. Two days before, it happened with a friend's dad back in India. His state is inexplicable, but currently he is at the threshold. These incidents kinda make me wonder what it is exactly with life?? What kind of feeling one must be experiencing when someone is at close quarters like that?? I have never had any close brush with fatal accidents except for one time. We were driving at a highway in Minneapolis. My friend was driving the car and there were four of us in the car. So this dude, merges into the highway without giving an indication and enters our lane. My friend had no clue this was coming and without thinking twice, abruptly moved on to the left lane. Fortunately, for us no other car was coming in that lane. Otherwise, that would have been "THE END" for all of us. It would have been the most horrible accident. It pretty much left me shaken and made me even more cautious while driving and not taking "life for granted" Sometimes, I really raise my eyebrows when I hear someone having suicidal tendencies. When someone is ready to just consume that "bottle of poison" for practically any reason, be it "failure in exams, being ditched by their loved ones" I might sound pessimistic at times, but killing yourself prematurely is something that I can never dream of. It can never be a "solution" I get increasingly uncomfortable in hospital environment. Although, I spent all my time in the medical school. Today, I saw this not more than 4 years old kid being trollied in the hallway. The kid had all sorts of tubes and catheters on its body. The sight saddened me to no extent. When such a small thing can fight for its life on a hospital bed, we as healthy living beings do not have the right to end it for any reason. Imagine people who are actually on the brink of life n death. They can see it coming from far off but still holding on to the strings of life. Thats what I call as "killer instinct" and a brave soul. Sometime back, on Sayesha's blog I read a comment by Negative creep in which he said "Death is what gives meaning to life" So very well said..and whole meaning of life summarized by few words!