50-50..
That’s the one I saw yesterday…I did saw it earlier also but
sitting alone and nothing to break one’s concentration gives you a different
power of perspective. I mean I have best moments when I talk to no one and I do
what I like to do alone without being spoken to. Privacy has taken a whole new
meaning for me.
Now, coming back to movie. I saw how Joseph Gordon-levitt the
main actor struggles in life when I comes to know about spinal tumour. How his
girlfriend cheats on him and he feels all the loneliness when he needs support
the most. Well the thinking point for me was that he knows now about death
coming near to him. I mean I felt some kind of closure he must be feeling. I started
to feel myself in his shoes and truly speaking I do find his position OK. I mean
I don’t have cancer or anything yet. God knows about future. But one thing I thought
was, if I do get it, at least I might be better to do things which I might not
do under normal circumstances. We all just keep living and don’t bother about
our loved ones and get busy trying to make more money. I do frankly.
And If I know I am dying and have xyz months at hand only,
well its better. I can just spend time with friends I love, family I ignored,
trying to bring closure to so many things, see places which I wish. When the
clock is ticking we all start feeling the need to run and finish what we want,
but otherwise who cares. Dreams are dreams. Only with the ticking of watch, we
feel that we have missed what all we should have been doing and now time is
gone. So I do feel, that death as and when comes to me, I will be more happy to
die with cancer than a road accident. I want to face it, I want to know and
feel the last months or days. I will be more than happy to face pain maybe but
rather than being dead in a second. Few months is all I need. Finish what all I
wish to finish, leave some kind of legacy, something for my friends and family
to remember me after I am gone. I think I should start planning now itself.