A fragile balance

Last week, we were driving back from school when a deer crossed the street. By chance my mother was prompted enough to avoid it. I wondered: ‘’What would have been our days if we have had an accident? What is most dramatic than an accident that can break your life?’’

Last week, several thousands people have lost the life in a dramatic earthquake in Haiti. I wondered: ‘’Why that happened? What did innocent children, women and men did to lose the life or become deprived from their families?’’

Last Christmas, 278 people travelling from Amsterdam hardly escape from a terrorist attack.

Everyday, we are witness or involved in situations that recall us how fragile the life is and how sudden it may happen. We all agree to say that nothing is more important than life and the rest is relative compared to that.

Saying that, why do we make our day to day life so difficult, busy with work, school, activities, without time to think anything else than our obligations for the next day?

I was thinking about that and came to the conclusion that it was probably the only way human being has found to preserve themselves from the unbearable paradox of the life, I mean life has a end for everybody but everybody can loose the life by sheer accident like in a lottery.

Because it is impossible to live knowing there is a Damocles’ sword above our head, the only strategy is to burden our brain and conscience with things to do to avoid thinking we are constantly in a very sharp and fragile balance that can be broken instantly by external event.

Can we say that life is like time parameter in the theory of relativity of Einstein in which time does not have the same value depending on the field of reference considered? Life does not have the same value if you consider it from a narrow standpoint burdened by your To Do List, or if you consider it from a broader view and recall we are in a short-lived and fragile state. This would make us more humble and positive.