Saturday, October 24, 2015

Your Last Moment

What if your life suddenly comes to a halt? What if this is the last moment in your life? What if you sleep and never wake up? What will be the last thing you did? What will be the last thing you said? What if you were sitting in a bus or a metro or your car or anywhere and all of a sudden your heart stops beating? What will be your last thought? Will it be about yourself, others, your problems, your blessings, or envy, or lust, or even disbelief? Do you even care? Do you even believe in the Judgement after death? What if I tell you that this little thought can literally define your final Judgement and change your destiny from Heaven to Hell and vice versa. 
And what will be the last thing you look at? Will it be the sky and the trees, the ground, some application or game on your mobile phone, lines from a book, verses from the Quran or the Bible, or some private message of the person next to you, or maybe some body part of some person from the other gender?! And your tongue, what will its last words be? Will it be a praise, a prayer, a comfort, a truth, or a curse, or a lie, or a sacrilege? And your whole hygienic state, will it be clean and immaculate or defiled and stinky? Have you ever thought about this? Have you ever considered that in a moment, a single insignificant moment, you can ruin a lifetime? 

Thursday, October 22, 2015

The Hole in the Floor

"A hole in the floor may not be much." He sat looking at the floor for a long time. Finally, he fell. I ran to him and with all my might I reassured him. When he got up and walked into the shadows, he stopped. Light glistened on his forehead. Every move he made was uncertain. He was so shaken. I all this time had not made a sound. He turned to me and nodded. "Good night, Mr." I said. 
(The pic is a random page from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Words were taken from it to form a very short story.)