A few days back, i encountered a thread in an orkut community. It asked, what would you do, if u had just six minutes to live? First of all, i would also like to ask the same question to all the ppl visiting this blog. then if u want to tell me the answer, you can post a comment, with your answer.
some of the responses that i found were, "calling friends and family", "eating something delicious", "robbing a bank", "kissing my gf/bf/spouse/wife/kids/mother/father/.../... goodbye" etc etc. The first thing that came to my mind was, fly. Yes, i want to fly. I have wanted to fly for a very very long time now. I wish i had wings and i could have flown all around as fast as i could. I have always wanted to feel the air rush by my face, when i flew. This is the reason why i have always loved heights. Anyways, more about this passion and desire, sometime later. My answer to the question was, "I would climb the highest possible height in 5 minutes, take a deep breath and jump from thr." Now, i think you people would have understood why i wanted to do this. I wanted to fly and this would bring me closest to flying, it would be my last minute anyway.
A friend of mine said, this is ridiculous, and that this somehow contradicts my views about optimism and life. He thinks this is suicide, and suicide can never be justified. But is it suicide?? Is there no difference between, "dying coz u dont want to live" and "dying coz u want to live the last moment"? I always felt, if i could fly just once i would have lived my life to the hilt. And i think this if i was suposed to die, was the last and nearest chance to feel that.
Now this is my view. I know some of you might not concur. But this is how i feel. Do write the answer to the question.
8 comments:
well i hv a cliche answer , to be wid my love or either call him..coudn't think nything better...but u actually utilised those 6 min to LIVE...to live for yurself..nobody else ..nd now even i can mould my thoughts of spending 6 min by flying...flying wid my love.....
As I said that day, some die to die, some live to die...and then there are those who die to live...and the third kind know that those last 10 seconds are 10 drops of life...pure, unscathed...emotionless...
Your Idea of flying is very beautiful. I saw people jump off the twin towers live on TV, 9-11. It was wildly horrifing, yet, somhow held power. They knew they were going to die, and chose to fly. I think I too would have done the same. To spend my last min.s holding someone dears hand, and jumping to my death, rather than be crushed or burned alive. Yet if I wasn't trapped as they, I don't think I would chose such a death. I'm sure I would want to be with the ones I love most, out under the stars, or in the shade of a huge wipping willow. Somewere safe, that I could leave them. Because in death, I wouldn't want them to die too, and if I jumped, to be with me, they would have to jump as well. I can sit on the ground, and fly in my heart , just as fully.
Flying is simple. You just throw yourself at the ground and miss.
@the blue
interesting. [:)]
@others
thank you for ur comments.
dood, think of something tht u could really do in the last 6 minutes. make a realistic situation. say u are in your room in kgp on a normal day and yuo get this information. now what would u do?
@logicark: iitian speaks... fun get ruin ..... he he he
@neeraj: well i will remember my life n ask sorry to every person i ever hurt intentionally or not. i would also tell my love n family that how much they mean to me ... everything !! so that when i part i don't feel tht anything is left unsaid
i will do a few very trivial things:
i will ask the people i care about most for their forgiveness
i will tell these people that i love them
i will find some green grass and walk a bit on it
if it has dew on it - it will be better
i will play a favourite song and dance and sing to it
i will smile to people more
anyways...i will have to prioritize if i have only 6 minutes i guess ;)
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