It is almost impossible
and beyond our imagination to assess the deadly pain of losing someone in front
of our eyes when nothing can be done except watching incapably. Uttarakhand’s
tragedy facelifts the tininess of mankind in front of nature’s ferocious form
where in seconds everything just vanishes. A life ends just like that in no
time. All we can do is moan about the nonnegotiable exchange of lives in lieu
of the continued injustice that is being done for years with nature. The
heartfelt experiences of people who have survived the havoc are either in
complete shock or deep agony after encountering death so near and seeing
helpless people drifting away in its claws. The death toll has reached
thousands, many survived, many couldn’t bear the acute hunger for days or the
chill of unpitying weather and surrendered. Kids, elderly, youth and women all
are in the lots of corpses who waited for some miraculous help but couldn’t
receive the luck of getting a chance to live again.
Every day we whine for
several problems; professional, personal, emotional and sometimes feel like we
are trapped in one of the biggest problems where it’s difficult to come out of
it. We all have many concerns in life, many aspirations and expectation from
this life, lot many dreams to fulfill, lot many issues to solve. How can such a
loaded and incomplete life can be just taken away. Under the remains of flood
lies the dead body of all such lives.
When I hear or see such
instances of calamity and disaster, faces of my own people who are like
essential bits of my life flash in front of my eyes and questions like ‘what
if’ clobbers this mind. Held hands when suddenly slip away, when persons coming
behind all of a sudden disappear, when hanging, striving persons just fall in
nadir, when the river passing by doesn’t carry the quenching water rather
stream of floating bodies of our own people…how can one gather the staggered
courage to look forward with a hope to survive. Every witness, every presenter
in the affected area unfortunately has the same scene in front of them. Many
have already lost their families, their friends and are still trying hard for
the life that has gone all empty stained with such a strong memory that will
never fade.
Nature’s revenge never
spares and now it seems it is too late to revert back to correct the mistakes.
Mistakes that is so huge that it is impossible to assess their probable
consequences. Seeing the devastation, it appears that we as a commoner should
be just ready to get engulfed anytime in the nature’s womb. All I hope is to
stay with people we love at the time we receive the final call.
As of now all we can do is
to live this life fully, happily, without any complaints, without any fear with
friends and family preserving the smiles, counting each day like a crowned day.
