Tearful Adieu....

This is one of those days when I am really feeling philosophical. Well, this sudden introspection is because I lost my close family member just yesterday. And what a day it was- The day began harping a new year as per the Punjabi calender (Baisakhi) and we were moving on with the flow. When all of a sudden the phone rings, its my uncle from Dubai (all my uncles are in Dubai) and he broke the news to my mother (she happens to be the eldest in the family and these are her brothers) My mother's world came stumbling down, for a split period of 15 mins she went ballistic with a whole lot of emotions. I did not know what to do I was paranoid, I was shocked that what if something happened to her in the mood that she was..with her sheer sense of courage she gathered her calm and came back to normalcy. But all this happened and I am so shaken up that- My God, life is so short and there is so much to do....what i learnt was live in the moment and for the moment, there is no looking back. Some things are meant to be that you can not change, but what you can do is act on the moment...we think so much and ultimately let time slip away. Time for one is not the same, so act on it when it prevails, because there is no point in regretting it later. You want to tell someone how you feel, say so right now because who knows kal ho na ho!