Reflections on Life and Death

Unaware Humanity enjoys a certain sphere of authority. Someone’s sphere is large, while someone else’s is small. But no matter what the size of one’s sphere, every person becomes in his respective sphere the very same ‘Major-General Manzoor’. Everyone is busy trying to push others down. Everyone wants to affirm himself by negating everybody else. Everyone mistakenly thinks that if he can remove someone else from his position, this empty position will be his to occupy. He forgets that what awaits him is not that someone’s position, but, rather, his own grave. Everyone who today imagines himself to be successful will, tomorrow, when death takes him away, be compelled to recognize himself as a failure. This actually happens every single day. Yet, no one is concerned about the tomorrow that will surely follow today. Everyone knows everything about his today, but does not want to even think about his tomorrow, when he shall have to leave this world.

Unaware Humanity A certain country in Africa produces an immense amount of electricity. The shimmer of the lights in its homes and shops has earned it the sobriquet of ‘Showcase of Africa’. One day, the electricity supply was badly disrupted and the country went under total darkness. It had to