The irony of Life
Irony of life is, life itself. It’s the most uncertain and unpredictable, yet the most planned and prepared for. People die every single day, calamities happen all the time, Allah keeps on sending us reminders that this life is nothing but a dream, like dreams feel so vivid and real so does life. But being human, we tend to forget, we forget why we are here, what should we be doing and how should we be living. I am no saint myself; i am an ordinary girl who postpones her namaz to next day almost everyday, who plans and plans endlessly for perfect events and occasions and who at the moment is deeply shattered and stunned by the events of yesterday. We humans have a weird sense of relating to tragedies, we feel most for those which either directly affect us or we can extremely well relate to, but yet we all have this inborn instinct that looks for conditions and reasons as to why it wouldn’t ever happen to us.
This is how I have been behaving towards all the blood shed in our country – a country where people die by dozens daily and where media is focused on getting more viewership than having the empathy to the affected. The daily bomb blasts & target killings have just been fleeting news tickers in my life, where I always reasoned with thoughts like, “it’s just the wrong area … the politically involved people, I am not like them – no it wont happen to me”….. But events of yesterday have literally conjured me up… I could have been one of them – they were just like me…young professionals…going to attend meetings, conferences – just like I do – just like my family and friends do. How do I reason with myself on this one? I cannot! I keep on thinking and thinking over this – trying to find one reason to console myself that this doesn’t happen to real people! But sadly the truth is … that it does!
It can happen to just anyone, anywhere, any day or anytime ….such is the reality of life.
So what should we do? Should we stop living altogether by the fear of death? Or shall we live fully in every moment treating it as our last? This is what I believe this test is all about…finding the right balance, not being so blindly dazed by the glitz and glamour of this life nor being extremely depressed by the fear of unknown and the uncertain nature of our stay here – this is what our religion teaches us. Being Muslims we know and believe that there is only so much we can do – even that not without the consent and will of Allah and the rest is completely out of our hands. So lets pray that Allah gives us courage and faith to be able to accept the realities of life, ability to enjoy, appreciate and make best use of every single moment we have here both in terms of the world and the hereafter and the strength to bear the losses we cannot imagine having but are destined to experience.
