An Abrupt End to the Journey of Life

heading for a happy ending, became a tragedy at the final moment. So it is with life. Man strives to make himself comfortable in this world, to see his ambitions fulfilled and his life a successful one. But death comes just as his dreams are nearing completion. He leaves his lavish mansion for the desolation of the grave, his glistening body to be devoured by earth and worms. His life’s labour vanishes without a trace as if there was no connection between him and all that he had strived for on earth. Visions of greatness had occupied his mind, but he is forced to enter the grave, and from there proceed to God’s court of justice. This world is quite different from the one he had sought to construct for himself on earth. Here he is destitute, without money to fulfil his needs, or clothes to hide his body. All his worldly earnings come to nothing. His friends desert him. He is left powerless, with nothing that he had depended on in the world to help him. What a tragic outcome to such a long, arduous journey.