Today I heard the sad news that my friend SP’s brother’s daughter has succumbed to dengue. I did not know the father very well other than have a drink with him once a long long time ago. But still I feel a strange sense of empathy with these unknown people. AF was only 8 years old way too young to die. Anyway children are not supposed to die before their parents. It is one of the things we (are conditioned to) believe that will not happen to us but to someone else. Just like the sun rising from the East and the clouds over our heads. These people were very well off living in a highly residential area. Sadly the mosquito or death for that matter has scant regard for who you are and where you live. And in the end the grief and the hurt is the same whether you are in a mansion or a hovel.
About Me
- cj
- Part fact part fiction, part fantasy part reality, part autobiographical, part journalistic and part repository of all the junk I find and like to keep on record. Welcome to my little space on the web. I am a walking contradiction… I am supposed to be a creative type but I can’t draw nor write… I lead a talented bunch of people but don’t possess any leadership qualities… Some call me successful but I don’t have an ounce of ambition…. Some of you may know me but many of you don’t and I like to keep it that way… in other words I want to be visible while being invisible… as you can see the title of the blog is quite apt. This is my effort to try my skills at the written word… and of course wax eloquent about the goings on in my world without really being loud enough to be heard.
3 comments:
good blog, keep it up
lets answer those who tarnish Buddhism
බුදුදහමට නිගරු කරන්නන්ට නිසි පිළිතුරු දෙමු , ඔබගේ අදහස් මෙහි පලකරන්න
http://lanka1-answers.blogspot.com/
Each death is a tragedy, and I can only imagine the grief AFs parents are going through. Our responsibility becomes stronger with each death - as individuals to keep our environment clean, as the general public to lobby the authorities to do so for public places and as global citizens, to fight the climate change and relentless urbanization that are underlying causes.
May AF attain nibbana.
I read your later post and assumed it was about AF. She was such a pretty kid. As a parent this is the worst thing we can hear happening.
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