Death! The End!

I know what you are saying. "So boringly philosophical". Well can't help it.
My friend Saumil's mother passed away yesterday. Chhapia came to my desk and told me that he just got a call from Saumil and that Saumil was inconsolable. Well, it is natural. Mother is a person irreplaceable...its a vacuum that their absence create..I can't imagine what must be going through Saumil and his family's minds at such this point.

Chhapia, Keyur, Gupta and Jatin left early to go to his home. I got down at High Court where Devendra picked me up and we went to Saumil's place. It was sure gloomy. Saumil and his brother had not yet arrived from the hospital. We prayed for the departed soul and then sat outside waiting for him. He and his brother came at around 8pm. We met him. He explained that she was on life support for the last 10 days or so and in coma. We all knew that she had a health problem and it was not small..but none of us knew it was this serious. She had suffered 2 massive heart attacks 1 after the other.

We sat there for some time with him and his family. Personally, I have never realised what to speak in such a situation. Words of consolation won't repair his loss, nor will he be in any such mindset where he would understand things. Speaking just for the sake of it is something I don't like. We all sat silently.

Today morning we all went to the smashaan for the cremation. Saumil was inconsolable today too. But I guess he will come to terms. God has given this excellent ability to humans to "forget". He would surely not forget his mother. But the loss is gradually forgotten...or rather the effect of the loss is gradually forgotten and thats probably what keeps us humans going.

More than Saumil I also feel for his father. Saumil has begun his life. He just got engaged..he will get married sooner or later. He will have his family and will get busy with it...thats how it should be. But his father? He has lost his soulmate...probably his only companion in his last years..what must he be going through? I dread of being alone...can't even imagine it...my heart goes out for him...I sincerely pray to God to bless him and give him enough strength to wade through this most destructive event in his life. Amen!