Like my father , my hubby too had started scanning the obituary coloumns and as he did so on the 1st of October (2009) , I teased him asking him if he was looking for his contemporaries . An hour later came the news of our cousin Vijuettan's death .. It struck like a bolt from the blue . In disbelief I called an aunt to confirm . She had not heard and I hoped it was a mistake . But hours later the news was confirmed and had left all relatives stunned . Vijuettan had been in his early fifties.
The picture of his family - his two lovely daughters and innocent wife and an ever smiling him just refused to leave my mind. Not a week back he had called hubby and announced that he was coming to Delhi on the 24th .
“Long time since I had dosas and chamanthi . Ask Asha to prepare them when I come“.
Those were instructions for me and then he insisted on talking to me . His laughter still rings in my ears today . His ‘Ok, bye’ was a long one and I had to cut the call or he would have gone on with many more ‘byes’. He didn't live to visit us and till date whenever I make 'dosas', I think of him.
He had raced through life , lived it on his own terms and hurried to death . He had enjoyed to the hilt , lived dangerously with all his life threatening habits and a couldn’t care less attitude regarding his health , had many a near-fatal accident , an incident of snake bite and many more adventurous happenings . At the age of fifty plus he even dared to try bunjee jumping and mountain climbing. He had done it all in in the short span of his life and probably had no regrets .
An unexpected and untimely death in the family makes one wonder ........
...Why the youthful him when there were so many octogenarians and nonagenarians waiting with impatience and willingness to leave any moment?
The picture of his family - his two lovely daughters and innocent wife and an ever smiling him just refused to leave my mind. Not a week back he had called hubby and announced that he was coming to Delhi on the 24th .
“Long time since I had dosas and chamanthi . Ask Asha to prepare them when I come“.
Those were instructions for me and then he insisted on talking to me . His laughter still rings in my ears today . His ‘Ok, bye’ was a long one and I had to cut the call or he would have gone on with many more ‘byes’. He didn't live to visit us and till date whenever I make 'dosas', I think of him.
He had raced through life , lived it on his own terms and hurried to death . He had enjoyed to the hilt , lived dangerously with all his life threatening habits and a couldn’t care less attitude regarding his health , had many a near-fatal accident , an incident of snake bite and many more adventurous happenings . At the age of fifty plus he even dared to try bunjee jumping and mountain climbing. He had done it all in in the short span of his life and probably had no regrets .
An unexpected and untimely death in the family makes one wonder ........
...Why the youthful him when there were so many octogenarians and nonagenarians waiting with impatience and willingness to leave any moment?
2 comments:
Yes....such incidents take us unawares...& really an intrspection of ourselves is what we do at that moment.
sad..!! circadian rythm is a 24 hour clock, human life stops anywhere in between.
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