The Unpredictable Life

Each of us is usually very casual, short-sighted and parochial in our approach to life:

I know this is important and has to be done.. but I can always do it later
Life is long and beautiful.. why should I not enjoy it?
It’s just a cigarette.. I don’t smoke that much.. no harm will come of it..
I enjoy driving fast.. Danger.. what danger.. I wear a seat belt, have insurance, and btw I am an expert driver!!
This may be a small thing to you, but it’s a big deal to me !!
How dare he/she do this?
How dare he/she talk to me like this?
And so on..
In all these and more ways, we demean the value that we ought to have placed on our and others' lives. We live in the false belief that all the bad things will only happen to others and not to us or our loved ones.

When the shit hits the roof (read when we or one of our loved ones get hit by the vagaries of life), that’s when we wake up and smell the coffee. Often by then, it’s just too late for us to retrace some of our actions which would have led to the crisis. That's the point in time when we can do nothing but regret the past, and resolve to improve the future. Though the fact is, again we do very little to improve the future unless we are forced to.

Isn't this mighty stupid and irresponsible? Don't we owe it to ourselves, our families and friends and the good God who created us, a bit more responsible behaviour?? They are the ones who get most affected if something happens to us. Don't we love them and care for their happiness??

These are all questions which one can dismiss as rhetoric, but these are questions which will come back and haunt each of us at some point or the other in life.

Choice is ours.. be prepared in advance or scramble when the shit hits the roof.

PS: And don't you please dismiss this under the ruse that "one has to enjoy life to the fullest".. Cos nothing can be more enjoyable that valuing life as it should be valued!!!