The ordeal of being a human.

I sometimes wonder whether its a boon or bane to be born as a Homo Sapiens. Life has taken me through so many crests and troughs that it makes think do I actually have control over my life. Yesterday I got the news that one of my close friends passed away in a tragic road accident, somedays back another news was about my aunt being detected cancerous and she would be with us for at maximum 6 months. These incidents have shook me completely, time and again I go back to think whether its a boon or bane to be born as a Homo Sapiens. As Yudhisthira, a protagonist of the Hindu epic Mahabharata said to Yaksha, a God in answer to his question that what is world's biggest wonder that all human beings know that we are mortal yet we live our life in such a way that we are immortalised.

This thought in the background of the two recent tragedies has made me believe that life is much more than run of the mill chore, its about giving and sharing and try making this world a better place to live then only my birth would be a boon else its a bane.