Death.

Death, a word that most certainly is associated with the loss of our valued ones. It brings with itself the tendency to break people into a million pieces and rip apart their souls, leaving behind grief and torment, where once there used to be ecstacy and merriment. Experiencing loss can transform people, it can make them steadfast for years before they come of age, grant them the maturity of a much older person or shrink them into a feebler being bounded by dependency. It can make us realise the uncertainty of life that grips each one of us with an indomitable force. To die is to succumb to mortality, to accept the finiteness of our existence and to fuse with the universe, beyond our comprehension. To see people die is yet again, an inevitable wedge of existence.

What brings me to a point where I find writing about one of the most melancholy topic there is to be fitting is the current world scenario, where oodles of people are dying and we are finding ourselves pushed deeper into this pit of incessant darkness and a sense of helplessness has seized us without any forewarnings.

Loss is one of the biggest and long-standing nemesis of humanity which not only cripples us but also paints us with the drab colours of guilt, where we find ourselves to be responsible for elements beyond our control and consciousness.

Some might agree that losing the people you love is more painful that losing your own soul to the cosmos. To imagine a world where there is no humanity is to walk on dead grass and expecting it to be moist. It's the presence of other people that bestow meaning to our existence, in the  form of companions, friends, family and relationships manifesting our complete support system. 

In my opinion, believing in a supreme power, in whichever form or abstraction, releases us of the agonizing and ghastly incidents that we encounter throughout our lives. It gives us the option of not holding ourselves accountable for every speck of a thing that happens to us and vanquish the solitude which we all shall face at some point in our lives. It makes you believe. It embraces you with the wisdom that even if all hope is exhausted, faith shall hold sway.