Today's newspaper really shocked me. On the front page was the heart rendering news of a girl being hacked in the busy BTM layout area and a few pages later it was the tragedy on the Mumbai-Pune highway. The second one looked almost like a scene out of "Final Destination". A real lot of things had to go wrong to really cause the tragedy. First a flat tyre, then the wierd arrangement of 2 vehicles parked on a highway side with people in between them, third a tired perhaps sleepy driver who has been driving without rest for past week and finally a lack of reflectors on the back of the vehicles....It was a cataclysm which seems to have been designed by nature. While i deeply mourn the death of 27 people some on the spot and the rest on the way to the hostpital, i also feel a sense of helplessness and frailty of life.
Man proposes and god disposes they say....
I have my own ideas about god but this one just enforces my belief that as humans we are just puppets in the hands of the unknown power. Going by logic i would say that the probability of the event with so many eventualities is very rare. Yet it had to occur, because the cosmos conspired. Something to ponder about everytime we think "I have done this", "I am so good"..Maybe we will get a reality check
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