I shall be accompanying you.
Interview someone — a friend, another blogger, your mother, the mailman — and write a post based on their responses.
Recently I happened to meet a being of a different realm at my house. After having exchanged gestures, I requested if I could interview him. With the aid of the art of persuasion & ability to convince, the being accepted my proposal and got ready to sit for the interview.
Me: So, you are known as the ‘invincible’. How do you feel about yourself being called as ‘invincible’?
Death: Is it something to boast about? (with a cool demeanor ). I am not sure how you mortals feel, but yes, I do except that I am invincible. Nothing can surpass me (a little superior tone). Having pride or not, does not affect me at all ( an affirm tone).
Me: Don’t you feel bad that you are taking away someone forever? (With a pityful eyes)
Death: No, I don’t feel bad. (With no emotion)
Me: Would you kindly add for your answer? (Staringly)
After a pause, death replied.
Death: (With the same demeanor) I am designed for a purpose. The purpose is to take away everyone and anyone whose name comes in the list. It is my duty to visit whether young, old, middle aged, jolly, sad, sick, poor, vicious, cruel, saint and anybody – any energy enclosed in a vessel. Infact, I am summoned by the soul of a body directing me that I need to accompany it in their journey leading to the gates of the divine (in a poetic tone).
Me: What if the soul doesn’t summon you? (I was looking patiently with intriguing eyes.)
Death: (stress in the utterances) It feels the pain of being alive. I am the reliever of all the pain that the body has to undergo (with a relaxing tone, self proclaiming).
Me: Does the soul not feel pain?
Death: The soul is the best to answer that rightly. (Said with an upright chin)
Me: Do you believe in miracles?
Death: I, myself, is a miracle. Indeed a mystery. So definitely yes. (With confidence radiating a mystery on face)
Me: Why do you have to accompany the soul?
Death: Your question is repeated. Anyways, to elaborate, the soul is in cyclic energy(rising inflection). It is independent of everything. It has the ability to select if it wants to be reborn, but needs a medium i.e. the body. Or it may also will to be a free spirit.
(Calm and composed) My role is to free from the bondage of the body. It is only through my coming the soul is liberated. I have to come.
Me: Aren’t you harsh?
Death: May I have the liberty to ask you, ‘To whom’? (Questioning eyes)
Me: Oh definitely! I am so sorry. I mean to say, you take away the soul and never gives it back. In no way, the one who goes away comes back to the other mortals, to those who remain behind. There is an excruciating pain, an untold tragedy it’s loved ones undergo. What will you say on it?
Death: I don’t react to any situations. Mind of a mortal is free. I forbade them not to think. It is their will. Similarly, harshness is a perspective of a mortal mind. Remind you! I liberate souls. The loved one will have to embrace the absence and I cannot help to ease the pain. But it is all okay. Acceptance and embracing the ‘gone moment’ is celebrating life.
Me: If you are pleased with a mortal being and the mortal ask you to grant him her a wish, what would you grant?
Death: I would grant everything what the mortal asks for with a clause that ‘you have the full will to summon me. I will be at your call’. (A little rising inflection and with cool demeanor)
Me: What advice would you like to give me?
Death: When you call me, I am there to take you and liberate you from the oodles of pain. But imagine mine, I am never liberated (reflection on innerself). The divine created me to follow the commands of time, for ever (folded hands staring at the immense limitless sky). So be contented with the life you have. Be joyful that I am there to ease the journey of your loved one (a smile with a relaxed expression).
Me: I am ready to go with you.
Death: Yes, let me accompany then.
There was silence everywhere. My soul is free but the pain of my loved ones continues.
@jishti 14Sept 2023
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