Any-moment-ending-life!

I was driving back home, at ease.


I had started early and the traffic was not heavy too. Ram was not well and it was a good opportunity for me to be home and spend time with him.


At a junction near Guindy, I slowed down seeing the signal color change from green to amber. I was sure that I would not make it. I was driving in the second lane and another two-wheeler to my left, slowed down too.


Just then, an auto raced past me, on my right. At the same instant, a white kitten crossed from my left and went past my lane, right under the auto. The driver did not notice and went ahead to cross the signal, in red.


The kitten was ran over. It was pouncing and withering in pain, in front of my eyes. It squirmed from side to side and then twisted unnaturally. It throbbed up and down and was spilling blood from its mouth, in every pound. The sight was horrible to witness and something in me was pushing me to drive again on it, to end its pain.


After a few minutes of throbbing, the kitten lay there lifelessly.


A rider next to me, went ahead to move the carcass of the cute little one to the road divider side. He dropped it to the shrubs and tried to check if it was still alive. I walked across the road, right behind him, unaware of the traffic around, my eyes stuck to the cute little one; now, the dead, hurt, deformed, bleeding one.


My eyes were filling up. I looked at that person, not sure what I was expecting to hear.


“Poiduchu ma. Mudinjuduchu.” (“It is done. Over.”) Tears went down my cheeks.


I offered my water bottle, to wash his bloody palms. I took a quick peek of the little one and walked back to my bike.


I started to sense the surrounding noise. My bike was right at the middle of the busy road. Right behind me was a company bus followed by cars. I drove ahead to the signal, which was still in red. The entire scene was done within one traffic signal change. However, it felt like a very long time.


May be if the auto driver was a little careful…
May be if the left side rider and I had not slowed down…
The kitten would have been alive.


Not sure, if its mother was around…
Not sure, if it saw the incident…
Not sure, if auto driver saw the kitten coming…
Not sure at all…


The incident went on in a loop in my mind, until I reached home. When I saw Ram, I could not control my tears. I thought about the mother cat, which would be expecting the kitten to be home.

The wait of the mother cat, was tending to infinity.

The next moment of life is very uncertain. It is what which makes life interesting and scary too. If I had been the one, whom the auto had hit, then that would have been the end of my chase. Over and out!

A friend of mine always says, “The son who could not express his love, to his dead dad, ask him the worth of every single minute that he lost.”

Take time to cherish the beautiful life that we are bestowed with. Speak to people in pain; help them out. Enjoy everything around. Live this moment.

Spread love. Smile. Be thankful. Apologize, even if you are not wrong. Fight but patch up immediately. Look forward to share happiness and sorrow. Lend a shoulder whenever possible. Be there for anyone in need.

Understand that, we might never get a chance to meet our loved ones again…


Because…


It is one-unbelievably-uncertain-any-moment-ending life!