Kaleidoscope Dream: Live. Laugh. Love. There Might Be No Tomorrow!

Live. Laugh. Love. There Might Be No Tomorrow!

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This life we live that we take for granted is filled with such mysteries. We live our lives thinking there is always a tomorrow, so we tend to take everything for granted and miss out on the most important things around us. Today all of us think we live a very active social life thanks to all these social networks and technology that has fallen before us. Everything and anything we want is just a touch away. But have you ever thought, "Are we really living the life we want? Or are we just pretending?"

We never think about how life can get back at us. Our lives can simply end in a blink of an eye, at the most unexpected moment. There is no point explaining these to people because a life-changing event has to occur to get this into their heads. That is also if they have a good heart and looks at life as something more valuable than gold and riches.

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For me personally, I have been through hardships in life. I have undergone the utmost possible pains physically and emotionally, yet I even don’t know how, but I somehow found the strength to fight through it all. I think to myself asking why do some people have to live a physically perfect life and why someone like me has to suffer through hardships. Where did I go wrong? What did I do? I will never know. But what I do know is that I need to do good to the people who matter; and not to every tom, dick and harry who tries to take advantage of me. I learnt this the hard way.

So coming back to my original topic of “What if there was no tomorrow?” Like you, I took everyday for granted doing the same old thing over and over. But two week ago a life-changing event opened my eyes and I couldn't process what I had to witness. I decided to pen this down hoping that someone will read this and think about life around us in a different perspective.

My beloved cousin Dimitra Goonesekera (23), whom is my age met with a tragic accident and died on the spot. Dimitra was such a happy, cheerful, funny, helpful and loving person. Always did everything for home and had an amazing bunch of friends. Having said that he was more of a gamer and wasn’t much interested in going out. He didn't ask for much, only wanted a PC that could run his favourite game DOTA. He asked me multiple times to join him, but I refused because I wasn't much of a gamer so I wasn't interested.

On Sunday (14^th June 2015) afternoon my dad got a call. He ran to me and said, “Sikuru, I have a bad news” so I asked “What?” and he said "Dimitra has died in an accident." I went into a complete shock. I was just sitting motionless trying to process what I just heard. After a while I broke into a river full of tears. My heart broke into a million pieces. I felt like the world was trying to play an evil trick on me. We quickly left to my cousin’s place. On the way I kept thinking to myself that this was all just a misunderstanding and I was wishing that when I got to my cousins place Dimtra would greet me with a warm smile! But it all went to dust the second I saw the white flag and all the people surrounding the house. I just walked in the house, hugged my other cousin Aruni, sat down and cried.

My eyes are full of tears at this very moment trying to pen this down. I feel like my heart is trying to remove itself from my body. I know that I need to be strong. I'm not going to talk about my cousin anymore because I can't bare it, so let me get back to life.

Life as we know it. How pathetic is it? A careless motorist killed someone I loved, someone I grew up with. Why does the driver get to live? And not my cousin! Life can never be predicted; you and me, we can all die at any given moment no matter how careful we are. We have no clue what we have done in our past lives and it gets back at us in our current life. And all of us have been involved in it for us to feel the pain of it as well. This is what we call "Karmaya" in Buddhism. When we have to go, we go somehow. This life we live; we fight for money, cars, property, people and other things, for what reason? We are born with nothing and we die with nothing, so at the end of the day nothing is ours. No matter how much you earn, how much you spend, how you look like; nothing matters.

Photo Courtesy: Ushan Gunasekera Photography

The sad truth is that people today do what they do, not to satisfy themselves but to satisfy others. It pisses me off that people are so selfish and go on about judging what others do without looking at themselves in the mirror to see what's wrong in them. People! Open up your eyes and take a look at what you can do to make another persons life better, without bitching about how what you have is not enough and how you really need what you don't have!

The other day a colleague of mine at work was telling me about her friend’s cat. Apparently they order the food for her cat especially from foreign countries to feed the cat. I was thinking what is wrong with these humans. There are poor kids whom don’t have a way of surviving the day to come. Each day is a struggle for them and here there are people importing food for cats without helping the need in our own community.

This is what life has become. Every human for him/herself! Where is the love? Many of us only pretend to care about others only when useful for them. The moment our usefulness runs out, you don't even know where they are. Do good to the people in-need. Go to a children's home and spend time with them, make them feel loved. Go to an elder’s home and help with the dinner servings. Do community services. The only thing you'll be taking with you at the time of your death is the good deed that you have done.

I know that I have done something really bad in my past life for me to suffer like this in this life. I have no words to explain the gruesome pain I have undergone. This is why I do good to people in-need and why I feel like I want to do something that will make a change in peoples lives and hoping I will have a more painless life in my next birth.

I don't ask for much in life. I just want to live a simple life and despite what I go through everyday I enjoy my life with what I have with the amazing loving people that matter to me.

My advice to you is; spend time with the people who are always there for you every time, and not the people who remember you when something is needed. Love everyone because there is already too much hate in this world and why boil your blood. Smile at haters’ coz they can't stand that. Care about the people who matter to you and the people who have been there for you. Appreciate what you have in life, and what you have achieved. Don't be afraid to take a risk. Help the people in-need and most importantly love yourself.

Remember that your problems aren’t big enough, it could have been worse than that. There are people who barely can find anything to eat!
Work towards what you believe in and what makes you happy in life. I know I am. Are you?

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Live. Laugh. Love. There Might Be No Tomorrow!

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