How Fast The World Falls Apart

Der Schöne Brunnen in Nuremberg by Cornelis Springer

All it takes is a moment, a single moment of shift in fate, a slight change in paradigm and all that you thought you were familiar with, all those you felt comfortable around, and all those who loved you and whom you loved, will fade away, will be alien, and strange. Your own soul starts to feel unfamiliar and unaccustomed to in your body.

In life, if there is one thing we can say for certain, it is that our lives are unpredictable. One cannot know what happens the next moment. How life will turn out to be in a year, and if we will still be alive a few years from now, or till the next sunrise.

This article is a tribute to all those moments which shatter our illusions of joy and peace, and drag us down the path of eternal misery, hopelessness and sorrows.

How do we know that a ‘moment’ falls under this category?

Let it be a death of someone dear to you, or a betrayal, an accident, something abrupt and sudden, and it will forever change the way you see the world, understand your existence and live your life.

If you get mugged, you know which place you avoid and how to predict the next it happens, you learn to be precautions. If someone betrays your trust, you will forever think twice before trusting someone and sometimes, you don’t trust anyone at all.

There is a beautiful line in the movie ‘Loving Vincent’ —

From ‘Loving Vincent’ Dir. Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman

This instantly became one of my favorite quotations of all time, and of course this reflects the absurd reality of life, the true realization that despite however strong you are, there will come a moment in your life which will break you, bring you down and shatter your expectations.

There are those who live without bothering themselves about those moments of life and there are those who spend their whole lives living in fear of those moments which will cause them pain and suffering. And those who fearlessly face life are the ones who live completely.

Death is inevitable, death is the destination where we are all headed despite where we live or how we thrive. And if there’s one more aspect of life that is as inevitable as death, it is pain and suffering.

Like it is shown in the movies, that life altering moment doesn’t happen with a dramatic act by the forces of nature, or by loud and intense music playing in the background, it is more like the way Tarantino portrays it, the tragedy will knock at your door as slyly, as silently and as causally as possible. And its aftermath might not kick it as soon as it occurs, it might take time. But nonetheless, it will change ones perspective of life, it might make one feel grateful to be alive, and make the other question his purpose in life.

It might happen soon for some and later for others.

But its occurrence is inevitable.

~ C. Madan

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