Life is unpredictable — Agree or disagree?

A prophet sipping his coffee, was in his office waiting for his client. As soon as he finished his coffee, there was someone on the door. The client was warmly welcomed. The forecaster started reading his prophecy and mentioned to him that he has a long life ahead. After 20 minutes of conversation, the client was leaving the office satisfactorily. Before he could step out of the office, right at the door, he collapsed and was suddenly unconscious. The prophet called 911. On arrival, after checking the scene, emergency responders declared him dead on the spot. The prophet got numbed and was not able to digest what just happened. A while ago, he predicted a long lifespan for him, which got overruled abruptly. He was shaken from within and started shaming his skills of fortune-telling. A truly sad story has left us with a couple of questions. Is life unpredictable? Are we ready for a sudden life and death situation?

Science has answers to all riddles or at least has the potential to find keys to miscellaneous locks. But unfortunately, it still cannot give us the exact date of birth and death until it is immediate. The start and end of life are both uncertain. Each birth and death are unique and explicit, like fingerprints. Life, whose start and end are vague, has most of its aspects uncertain too. Although death is the worst of all as it is troublesome to cope with.

To a certain extent, we all will agree that life is unpredictable. However, this notion gets concealed to one small dark spot of our brain with the layers of daily planned routines and recreations. We aren’t able to see it until we experience hurdles or unseen circumstances such as dear ones’ death. It wasn’t part of our plan. Disruption in our plan wipes down those hidden dark spots of the unpredictability of life and leads us to the path of rethinking. How do we deal with this shady spots? It causes commotion and despair as soon as the spots are visible, which happened to the prophet too. How do we deal with such consequences of the uncertainty of death? How we cope up with the fear of death?

For some, time heals it.
For some, crying heals it.
For some, memories heals it
For some, faith in God heals it.
For some, creating new memories heals it.
For some, something else heals it.

This is universal and happens to all. We all know one who is born has to die one day. It’s a matter of dealing with it. Everything we do to haggle with it is valid with no critiques. We should have unconditional authority on how to cope when someone near and dear to us depart from our lives. There are numerous who die every day, but we don’t get frightened unless they are our own. Those dangled to us emotionally impacts us. As we profoundly ascertain the unpredictability of life, it’s time for us to persevere that notion on our mind continually. It will help us to conduct suitably with all our beloved ones in the following manner.

Avoid fighting unnecessarily,
Compromising on petty things,
Talking pleasingly every time a conversation happens,
Comforting each other emotionally,
Being there for one another in need,
Ignoring flaws in each other,
Appreciating the little efforts too,
Anything else you could do.

Let’s show the life how unpredictable we are. Let’s do things which life didn’t predict for us.