Reincarnation

Have you ever seen inevitable personified? We keep writing about standing at the edge of the abyss, just like movies, but never address what happens after slipping from one. It is just like the taste of cyanide – unknown, until one fine day, someone survives the day just to tell the world if everyone before him tasted a sweet, bitter, or sour death. We keep testing our limits and pushing further and there’s just so much life can take, and the limits let loose and you free fall from the abyss.

Standing there, with an aimless heart and a blank mind and absorbing the utmost beauty and solace of nature’s waterfall while sliding inch by inch by the back force of the same water, somehow the entire scene out of a movie set seems extremely inevitable in retrospection. How much careful and cautious can you be when nature pulls you in? Well, that is the beauty and wrath of nature at once. In one split second it can take you from daydreaming to fighting in between the crossfires of gravity and buoyancy, just to give birth to a savior for life! It was the personification of earth slipping from underneath. It is not gradual; it does not give you time to realize or prepare yourself for what’s forthcoming. One moment it is there, holding you down and keeping you firmly grounded and the very next moment you are under water, without the slightest air in your lungs.

From the face of it, it looked shallow with a maximum of chest deep water. The bed was unevenly distributed with broken rocks, sand, and algae. In the middle of it all, in front of everyone around, nature had dug a hole, oh so deep, yet it would not be fathomable to the common eye. Amidst the trench, with the sweet amalgamation of cross flow of water back and forth, was a whirlpool, deep down, with an uncanny yet dubious still layer of water that camouflaged with the surrounding flowing stream. Without the slightest preparation or thought of a complete flip of events and without any prior reserve of inhaled air, the fall instantly struck a nerve as to how important a life skill swimming is, yet unknown and unaware at the moment. After a moment of the natural instinct of inhaling through the nasal cavity, the unusual element of water instead of air had rightfully kicked the floodgates of adrenaline and switched open the buccal cavity instead. The inherent flow of the whirlpool underneath had successfully isolated me from the surrounding rocks and boulders and had me struggling for breath and life in the middle of what seemed like nowhere, yet within known territory. Gasping for breath and searching for something to hold on to for life and losing hope inch by inch while fighting hard to go above the surface in pursuit of oxygen finally made me realize how insignificant we are in front of nature and fate. We complain about the people around us taking us for granted while we diminish the value of life to miniscule and let strangers disrespect us and thus undermine the life we hold! We take life for granted on a daily basis and seek for it to end in order to run away from our problems. At times this disregard backfires and it was that split moment when I realized that it takes such lifechanging incidents to avenge our disrespect towards the life we have that we are ready to throw away every second that things go south. With the diminishing will and energy to fight yet pushing myself further just to get my face out of water for once, in search of oxygen, I kept drinking the water that was drowning me in and faintly hoped and waited for my savior to come and rescue me.

It is said that life gives you so much that you can endure and if you are fated to live, it gives you a way out to see another sunrise. Having exhausted every ounce of reserved air within and pushed every muscle to try and stay afloat, just when I was on the verge of giving up and was slowly yet steadily going to the bottom of the ditch, there was a familiar touch, a hand, that sucked out the final reserve of adrenaline to fight for survival. It is said that you can never pay back the debt of your savior. I felt that, that very moment.

I knew I had to push further and fight if not for myself but for his efforts and intensions. I held on to him and defied gravity for a split moment to rise above the water and suck in whatever oxygen I could and felt him going breathless at the very moment. There were two souls stuck in nature’s whirlpool fighting against every odd for survival while swirling in the center of it. Within a split second we lost contact and got lost amidst the spinning force yet fought harder and caught hold of one another back again. At that moment I knew I just had to support him and put all my experience of teamwork for both of us to get out of it. Meticulously using the air, we inhaled and with every last bit of energy left, he swam towards the edge that gulped me in while I just held on to him steadily. Within seconds we caught hold of a surface and was about to climb back up, but it seemed like the never-ending fight for survival was just not over yet. Just like we held on to the surface at the same time, we slipped back in simultaneously and this time almost on the verge of losing hope. However, even though every inch of your body might give up, that tiny part of your brain will never stop releasing the fight hormone till your heart stops beating and with the help of nature’s process of evolution for survival, we defied the natural forces trying to suck us in. With his one last push and climb, the endless struggle got over leaving back a lifetime of trauma and immense gratitude and an overwhelming sense of respect for life and an indescribable gratitude for my savior. Without much knowledge of swimming himself, just with sheer willpower, presence of mind and team work he reincarnated my soul from what seemed the very end.

It takes a split second to end it all yet if you fight a little further, you never know, the next day might be better and dawn with a solution to some of your problems. As said, yes, life is precious and what is even more beautiful is the will to live. Respect it, cherish it, celebrate it and under no given circumstance let any negative energy disregard it! You get one lifetime to live, make the most of it. Well, most of us get one lifetime to live while some get a bonus lifeline to make it count! I’ll surely make the most of it, I hope you do too!

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P.S.: This blog will go up in dedication to my savior!