Death Fast Forwarded

Usain Bolt, the fastest man on earth is the Sportsman of the year. Wow!!! He wins both the 100m and 200m Olympics Gold in Beijing in record times and pips out Michael Phelps who had a dream run in the same edition and cracked eight Golds in swimming beating Spitz’s long standing record of maximum Golds in swimming. They promise to better their own records in the coming days and we are waiting for that to happen with abated breaths. We love it when somebody redefines speed in any field.

But how long can anybody keep challenging their own speed? Today, there is an Usain and a Phelps, tomorrow there would be somebody else in their places. Nobody can have permanence in breaking rates of speeds. They could do till such time as their body withstands. What next for them then? Better to remain as legends than pushing the extremes of extremes for too long a time that might turn fatal for their own existence. There has to be an end to any roller coaster ride or for a juggernaut roll and similarly for humans. There is a certain vantage point and it is for us to identify and respect that to maintain sanity in our lives.

The present world trend is quick paced. We want things to be done in a jiffy. The faster the work gets over the better the efficiency is considered. It is true in any field and particularly the corporate sector. Quick deployment of projects brings with it high appreciation and bonus packages and we are game for it. We want to test our own speeds time and again, push limits to whatever extremes we can dare, if not more, till we realize it’s too late to turn back.

The rate at which we see people contracting illnesses or becoming vulnerable to heart attacks is alarming. Every other middle aged guy (30yrs-40yrs) suffers from High Blood Pressure. Stress and office tensions have become the norm of the day. Even though people realize the ill-effects of constant deadline dictated life styles, there is not much reaction in correcting it. Everyone constantly live on medication and that’s the only way we intend to counter it, continuing our race in and for ‘life’. I think we have a heavy debt to pay to doctors living in our locality or is it a supreme confidence in medical science that we leave even our lives in doctors’ hands to reach and satisfy our own money stained ends?
The more we earn, the more we can pay the doctors. Great!!!

In the run to make things faster and achieve bloated profits, humankind has fast forwarded its own life cycle. We give a damn to the consequences of this hub-hub in our lives till death knocks at our door. It’s as though we have fast forwarded death itself. The faster a person dies the better his efficiency in life, I guess. sigh!!!

* Image of Phelps: Courtesy- Associated Press