A mother gives birth to her first child, develops unilateral loss of vision 5 days later, faints and goes into a deep coma on the 6^th day and is put on a ventilator. A soon-to-be-married groom gets out of the jeweler shop having finalized the wedding ring only to be run over by a speeding car and does not even make it to the hospital. A father buying a surprise graduation present for his daughter comes out of the watch shop only to fall  victim to a bomb placed in a briefcase lying innocuously nearby. This and umpteen other examples are incidents we all tend to ignore in our daily life forgetting conveniently our own mortality and the ephemeral nature of life.

Keeping in mind the above, petty quarrels, ego issues, who said what to whom and when, whose turn it was to call or where the score has tilted in the other person’s favor become so meaningless. Life is short, live it to the fullest. Tell those you care for how important they are for you without the fear of rejection, say the i-love-you before the intermission, try your luck with the person you have always watched from the sidelines but never had the courage to approach, make that phone call for which you never found time, in short, cherish the people who matter for in the end irrespective of logic and what not people are the only thing which really matter.