Monday, December 1, 2014

Death - 0 (The beginning of the end)

December always gives me a feeling as if someone is dying. And every year, year after year, I found it was the year that was found dying through December.

But death, unlike life, is not so bad or painful or difficult. It's easy - you just have to lie there!

Anyhow, this month of December 2014 is for death. You know why? Because death is a poem. Remember what Gulzar wrote for 'Anand' and Rajesh Khanna recited:

मौत तू एक कविता है
मुझसे एक कविता का वादा है,
मिलेगी मुझको

But this is not to mourn the death or the dead. This is to celebrate death as once in a lifetime event. So don't be sad or disgusted or sorry. Just remember what the gentleman and lovely statesman poet Atal Bihari Vajpayee once wrote:

जन्म दिवस पर हम इठलाते, 
क्यों ना मरण त्यौहार मनाते, 
अन्तिम यात्रा के अवसर पर, 
आँसू का अशकुन होता है।

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