Hard Talk


 Life is what you live until your death. Very profound yet very quick. Who knows how long is one’s lifespan. Some die in childhood, some in youth and some reach old age. How can anyone know in which category one belongs. So there’s always a possibility that we can die at any phase of life. Why then are we so careless about some thing’s that certain to happen and can happen at any moment of time. I know we get answers like what’s the point in living with the fear of death all the time. Its not the fear that keeps you going rather it’s the reality of your being. You are ought to go one day. Base your priorities on that. If you were told that your life will never come to an end and you have to live on  this earth forever…then our way of life would have been different. Actually, each one of us, belonging to any of the faiths, know deep inside that he has to meet his end one day. His inner voice tells him at one or the other point that he is going to get what he sows here in this world. 

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