THE WORLD OF 'GARFIELD'
This morning I read this cartoon strip and it sent me thinking.
(The world existed before you were born and it will exist after you are gone- to which Garfield replies 'why' ? )
A very valid question indeed. It does not really matter. What matters is the world exists when I am alive. We exist together and we die together as far as I am concerned. Nothing else matters. Parents, siblings, spouse, children, friends and other relations are the world. The exist within my life' s time frame.
How do I know if the world existed before I was born or we born simultaneously ? I saw it when I was born and obviously it saw me when I was born. Before that we were not aware of each other.
Then we travelled together to make our journey worthwhile. We met many of who were born before us, with us and after us. Some left on the way. There were ups and downs like natural calamities and sickness, light and darkness like days and nights and so on but all were just an honest fight for survival.
And then the time came for me to say good bye. It was painful because parting always is. None of us knew what will happen next but one thing was sure we will be strangers to each other once again. We thought to go in one go to make sure that since we came together should go together. But now it was not in our hands. Getting born together was, going back wasn't .
Any other way would have made us selfish. Why would any of us live after one of us is gone? I am sure the world also left immediately thereafter.
Garfield is right.
