Chasing the horizon
Are we all aware that we’d die?
Nah, the education teaches
us to forget death. The addiction
to neglect the inevitable has
seeped through the nerves, over
generations, through nexus,
slowly taking the global
situations from bad to worse.
Despite losing lives every
now and then, we don’t talk
about the unwritten taboo,
that my time will also come.
Schools, across the world
had never included it in
the curriculum; we have
sex education, not death
education. Moral science,
although not included in the
mainstream was at least
present even a decade ago,
but now, it had been shown
the door.
Adolescent violence, loaded
guns with due license,
rubbers, condoms have invaded
the innocuous schoolbags
that once carried books,
tiffin boxes, at times, goodies
for celebrating birthdays.
Meaningful, engaging effort
from parents, leaders, educators,
with a promise to gift the children
their least deserved innocence
seems like chasing the horizon.
what if there is no Death and it’s a revolving door and you start all over again as tabula rasa? what if the Wheel is an Engine of all possible Dreams in all possible durations? maybe we needed an idea like death, maybe we lived somewhere there was such a thing and it was a blessing an honor the ultimate too and have to wake up to find it again.
the title is perfect.
Thank you. Your thinking brings a different dimension to the text here.
Our education system had succumbed to an insane method which is to make people forget that we’re going to die, death is a taboo everywhere. Why so I wonder.
I sincerely think our children need to be conscious of death as part of their curriculum, at every step we need to remember this fundamental truth, that we’re going to die any moment. It is this consciousness that will, in my opinion, make life more pleasurable.
As always a lot to chew on. Not sure I ‘d agree to have death as a subject in the curriculum. I’d rather we taught children how to live their lives to the fullest. Death will come; why load them with paranoia about it.
And was not sure what this meant:
The addiction
to neglect the inevitable has
deep down the nerves,
Thank you will revert.
Dear Bhi, First of all, it was a mistake, I meant seeped but wrongly typed deep. I am sorry my texts give a chewing sensation to many. In here, I was trying to think out of the box, in order to understand as to what could give back the innocence to the children they truly deserve. In an age where virginity, at that age, is a crime, they move around with condoms and guns; so I was wondering that consciousness of death could be a solace. I see you have defined death (in your mind) as something that would put… Read more »
S,
In my mind death is inevitable, but, to correct you, i have not defined it as a load on the tender minds; there are subjects that they learn about as they grow older; history is rife with death and destruction, and to focus, and that is my argument, on death itself will do nothing to broaden their minds or horizons. Let them enjoy being children – and “to enjoy” carries sub texts – who defines enjoyment etc. Life is much more than death.
B, Death isn’t a negative thing at all, it is the most beautiful thing whose consciousness can make children’s lives more beautiful. The meaning of life, real life, comes across when its absence in the physical form is internalised in the system. Holding a gun or a knife to shoot or kill would be less likely, showing off of material wealth, being uselessly competitive would become redundant. I was trying to think out of the box, literally and figuratively, but wasn’t able to explain it to anyone. My family, relatives think of me as a useless person who should be… Read more »