What’s there in a moment?

(25 Oct 2013)

What’s there in a moment? Well, a lot, I suppose; may be a lifetime of eternity!

A moment is so negligibly small and unquantifiable, it’s not even a formal ‘unit’ of time. Mathematics or science does not recognize a moment as a measurable entity. Yet, a moment could hold all the truth of one’s life; a moment could be all that separates life and death; a moment is what stands between a yet-to-be-born and a just-born. A lot of arguments are won and lost in a moment. Sports matches are decided in a moment. Kisses are planted and forgotten in a moment. Anger can kill all conscience in a moment. A moment could just be too momentous to be ignored!

Despite no scientific evidence to support, I’m of the philosophic belief that the moment right before we breathe our last is the most enlightening of them all. That’s when, though in a jiffy, we’re made to glance through the entire balance sheet of our life. There’s only one birth and there’s only one death. You won’t come back to experience this overwhelming journey called life – the greatest gift! That one moment is when you know how well you’ve served the purpose of your life, how well you have equated the left hand side to the right hand side of the balance sheet. It all happens in this life alone. The full bioscope of our life and times, of all laughs and cries, of pleasures and pains, of gains and losses, of virtues and vices, of lefts and rights, of could-haves and should-haves, of blacks and whites, of remembrances and oblivions, of rises and falls, of trusts and betrayals, of physical and abstract, of love and hatred, of brilliance and mediocrity, is in that one moment of our encounter with the truth. That one moment signifies the final leg of the ride, when everything good and bad must end, beyond which there would be no moment of realization, no sunrises and sunsets, no beginnings and ends. 

It is in that tiny moment before we die that we live forever! That’s the moment of eternity.