Survival
: Dr. Aju. P. C.
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Yesterday
was a terrific day. Dr. David met with an unusual
event. A tragedy or coincidence or nature’s
game – the incident struck him and led his thoughts
to realize a very simple and basic principle of life.
A seven-year-old mentally retarded boy suspected of
malignancy came to him – the only son of his
parents. Think about the cruelty nature was playing
with this child already mutilated by mental retardation.
So David started thinking about fatalities in life,
those inflicted on children who are innocent, knowing
nothing about the huge, artificial, dishonest world
around them.Then a simile struck him. Yesterday he
was eating a bunch of grapes. Trying to collect the
good ones, he threw away many – almost a quarter
– some unripe, some rotten, some discoloured
and a lot……He now realized why such a
thing happened – almost one-fourth of the grapes
in the bunch were not edible.
That is the rule of nature. In the game of selection,
some are discarded, some turned over, until finally
the best are selected and allowed to grow to their
zenith and give their best to mankind and nature.
Maybe that is why some young children have leukemia;
some are blue babies and some grapple with unidentified
syndromes. Just like those some unripe, discoloured
grapes.
And nobody knows except nature by which rule victims
are selected. That is how things happen and nobody
tries to explain why some are healthy and some diseased;
some happy and some sad. David came to realize the
sad fact of life, nature and this entire universe,
which still remains a mystery. And he is just a worm
creeping in around the bushes of this infinite forest.
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