The Ugly Truth
6th December,2016.
09:13 AM.
Another person taken away from us. Honorable chief minister J Jayalalitha.
I never knew her personally and I'm sure many youngsters who are mourning her loss now on all social media are the same way. But, I guess everyone feels a tinge of sadness.
What did we learn from this?
Everything in this world is so unpredictable, temporary.
So many people prayed for her recovery. They showed it on television. Women crying, men crying, all just hoping for one thing, for her to be okay, or at least for her to be alive. My mom said that if she did survive this then it only proves one thing, that God actually listened to our prayers.
Well the outcome? The miracle we all had been hoping for? It didn't happen. She died. People are now crying over her “ mortal remains”.
Everyone is just okay with everything that happened. First we cried for her recovery, now we're crying over her loss. That's it.
Does this mean that no matter how many people pray together for something, selfish motives aside, nothing will change in the end?
The end outcome is the same, irrespective of what we hope for.
More than the number of times I've seen good people rewarded for their good, I've seen bad people going unnoticed for their crime.
You see, the bad as in people who do bad things never have to fight with their conscience. For they've already won that war. They're okay with doing bad things. And that makes them powerful.
But the people who still didn't win that war fight everyday, every minute.
They unconsciously fight a war between good and evil everyday.
Maybe one day they'll be tired of fighting and just lose.
Why? God wants it to be this way. He decides, doesn't he? When we come, when we go, where we go and all the shit in between.
Coming back to Jayalalitha.
Now that she's gone, people are only focusing on all the good things she did. She has done a lot of good things. She's been a great inspiration to a lot of people,me included. She has shown courage and determination in the face of every hurdle she's come across. And that's a great thing to learn from every human being.
But even now, every time someone starts talking about her, they add the prefix, “being a girl”. Is that even necessary? The hurdles she crossed was difficult, the things she did was great but does the fact that she's a woman make things more difficult or great? If Jayalalitha was a boy, she should still be respected for all the things she's done. Adding the prefix tells the society that doing the same thing has different levels of difficulty for being a woman and a man.
It all changed abruptly. One second she was in grave danger, she was critical and the next, she's gone. That's it. A second was all it took.
One minute they were showing how people were still crying, still praying and the next minute they showed her life history. Present turned to past.
Jayalalitha is in grave danger to Jayalalitha has passed away.
And people came to terms with that.
That's what happens i guess.
You pray for something, you hope for something, it doesn't happen, you move on.
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe it'll all make sense one day or maybe it'll never make sense and ill probably be okay with that too, just like I am with everything else.
