Prior to the quantum advancements in the fields of medicine, people died of kidney failure and heart attacks, with no second lease to life. Today, neo medicine gifts sight, longer life, new kidneys…. It indeed is quite overwhelming.

Now lets juxtapose this new lease of life with elderly people. I watched helplessly as my father in law battled Parkinsons over a span of 30 months. Every time he sank a little more, we would rush him to the hospital. They would pump him up with vitamins and the works and then we would come home. Sometimes we went right back in a span of lesser than 48 hours!! So ultimately when his tongue refused to help him to swallow, we resorted to a rhine tube. The last two weeks of his life were spent on an assortment of liquids which could be sent in through the rhine tube.

He developed a sore in the back and his speech become incoherent, but his daily dose of medicines - one for every ailment, only prolonged his losing battle. The last two days were particularly filled with anguish. The Parkinsons had taken complete control and his whole body would tremble every five minutes. Finally he succumbed to this illness on a still, late November morning.

I sit here now and ruminate about the course of nature. What it means to hamper to it? Is there a benefit in changing it? All things/events/even weather conditions in my mind have a logical end. Its my understanding that we allow our arrogance, to make us believe that we can overpower nature’s course as it were. We believe that we can control things and we have a responsibility to do it. Isn’t evolution real? Should we force ourselves to slow the pace or change the course of evolution? Are we always privy to the reason why an evolution happens?

There will always be rich and poor. There will always be healthy and diseased. Starvation is not a new finding of our century. Isn’t this all about balance? Can the effort of an entire universe ensure that we are all happy, well fed and inhabiting a green pure world?  The imbalances of our lives turn into causes for some people’s lives. It remains a cause which is tried to be watered down, but does it imply it will be eliminated? Then again there is merit in believing every tummy which is fed, is a little hunger gone…

There is a will of GOD...and it is not limited to creation and health and beautiful and white happenings, it includes extinction and disease and ugly and dark happenings...and we have this compulsive urge to iron out all imperfections...

Cheers,

T