No Tomorrow

(the year 2012)

As everyone waited for the specified time, I was swiftly going through the news channels, they all said the same thing, our worst fears had come true, and as the clock ticked over to 5 pm IST, I turned to my favorite and most trusted news channel

 

There on the screen I, along with my whole family could see the president of the USA, BARAK OBAMA, the most powerful man on earth, deliver the most depressing speech of his life, of my life, of everyone else’s lives, the most depressing monologue ever said by any leader of any country, state or tribe, in the history of the earth.

 

He confirmed what many of us believed would never happen, and what many of us used to scare their contemporaries with. But this was no threat message, nor a warning, it was an admission, a submission to the mysteries of nature and how un-unravel able they actually are, it showed how even the most powerful species on earth could be humbled by mother nature.

 

He concluded his 10-minute succinct speech with the following lines “I know the situation is graver than ever before and even with all our scientific research and technological advancement we are left helpless, I know our current predicament is as bad as it can get and there is no way of coming out of it, I know the meteor that’s approaching us can take away everything that we have on this mother earth, including our precious lives, but one thing that it cannot take away is our right to remain happy, to enjoy our last bits of life, to forget all the differences that exist between us, be it caste, creed, religion, state or country and love each other, lets not spend the last few hours of our lives in hatred or remorse, or worse still, in agony of what we couldn’t achieve and what we could have achieved, lets eat drink and make merry, lets spread love and happiness all around, lets live today, because there’s no tomorrow, say with me for one last time YES,WE CAN”

 

As he ended his speech the channel started a report on how the NASA had found out about the danger and what all steps they had taken to avoid the fatal meteor but failed, and what all the other space agencies around the world had tried, all in vain. Doomsday had finally arrived.

As the report ended it was 6 in the evening and the channel had started showing scenes of places from around the world, how people were reacting to the situation, their comments, their final wishes and what they were doing to fulfill them

I was too depressed and stressed out because of all this; I decided to take a walk around in the neighborhood.

As I went out on the street I could see other people coming out as well, I could see people going out for long drives, people going to their favorite eating joints, some praying for mercy, some for heaven after death. As I moved in my favorite restaurant, it was overcrowded, the music was on and people were singing and dancing on the dance floor.

Some were writing, some reading, others watching movies, most spending the left over time with their loved ones, with their children, their parents grand parents, husbands, wives, friends, girlfriends, boyfriends, some were trying to meet their favorite actors and actresses, others ending rifts between old friends and getting back together with them

 Stage shows were scheduled around the world for artists to perform before the public for one last time, everyone seemed so purposeful and full of life, so enjoyable and ambitious, so loveable and so happy, and yet so sad deep down within

 

Watching all this I thought, this day should perhaps go down in history as one of the happiest days on earth, but then I thought, what a pity we had lived the other days of our lives so meaninglessly and without peace and harmony. How we had spoilt our own lives through wars and battles, fights and quarrels, envy and hatred. It almost seemed fitting that nature should take matter in its own hands and end all our lives together, because it couldn’t have meant our lives to be such when our race had started.

I wondered what a pity we could never live like this all through our lives, what a pity our lives were so lifeless after all, if only we had always lived as if there was NO TOMORROW