Strange how life is – Heard an announcement on board. “If there’s a doctor around, kindly come over to bogey no. ‘this’ as a passenger has fallen ill. Passenger needs urgent assistance.”
At the same time, I look around and find a gentleman taking a happy-smiling selfie with his family and posting it on WhatsApp status. Another probably didn’t listen to it as he was busy talking on phone about product maximization and all that. Another one was watching a Netflix series on phone.
The feeling that I had, being in this situation is something unique and cannot be described. It was an unusual blend of everything together as one. I guess it wasn’t even a feeling, a state of being of sorts.
This blend of reality flowing as a whole and at the same time being completely irrelevant to each other in parts is why we find life at its best and in a total sense of flow. The individual parts flowing on their own are completely or partially unaware of other individual parts flowing at the same time. But, each plays a significant role in shaping each other’s understanding of reality consciously or unconsciously.
In this flow lies humanity at the deepest end, like an ideal of sorts. But the momentary happiness, being sought by billions of individual parts often shades that fact. It gives variety of shades, often unique to that one ideal we base our principles and beliefs upon. In time though, the colourless, formless humanity does peek out, get felt or realised in a blissful manner, just as it peeked out right in front of me. Post the announcement, not one but several doctors who were on board, got up and rushed towards that bogey to attend to the passenger.