June 13, 2012

To know or not to know?


I was just musing about this topic as to will it be fair and good to know everything that is ever going to happen in our life or will it be a mess if we would know our future!
For instance, I was thinking this with regards to death. Will it be good to know when we would die or it should be a suspense as always it does and all of sudden we would be missing from this world forever.
Just remembered the movie Dasvidaniya, in which the lead character Mr. Vinay Pathak come to know that he have cancer which is at the last stage and he could not be cured. So he make list of things that he would do before he would die.
Wow! I indeed loved this concept. But it would be very strange to say that I would like to know when I would die so that I can make list of things that I would do before I can die. Not all can handle themselves in such a situation and secondly it's a movie after all. And no matter how late but I've definitely learned that reality of life is reality and fictions of movie are fictions. They could never resemble true picture of real life, indeed we should not accept this from them as well. But then yes, living life in reality is more than enough to know what is real and what can never happen and so atleast we should have movies that could make us dream about something that could not happen in real but still we could be happy seeing them happening in front of us. But then believing into it and expecting such things to happen actually in real life is also freaky. So we should have senses to distinguish into what is real and what is fictional.
Phew! I'm smelling that I've completely deviated from my topic. So coming back to it, would you like to know when you would die rather than all of sudden going from this life without even ever realising that this life which belong to you has actually ended and things that you had thought of doing once but had postponed it due to some reasons and responsibilities and have given other stuffs more priority but had still not erased them from your to-do list but have just given a back seat, and now when it was the time when you thought that the list had brought those things at upper stage and you could have done them but now this cruel life isn't with you to let you do them!
Would you like to die with those unfulfilled dreams in your eyes?
No! I would definitely not. But I do know that it's definitely not possible to know when would you die either. And of course not all can live with this thought of knowing exactly when they would die. Sometimes its good to know what you don't know. Some would die daily with this thought that they would soon die but some could plan their life and try to fulfill all their dreams that they ever wanted to fulfill.
Would you like to know when you will die?
What things you would do before you would die?
These are the two questions I have for myself to answer, would you too like to think about it?

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