Die Enormous

Waves of shock and despair spread across the globe as a devastating earthquake of magnitude 7.8 hits Nepal. The mighty Mount Everest stands and shivers helplessly as Mother Earth shakes her head in rebellion.

Time and again we humans feel the burns of Mother-Nature's rage and are reminded how tiny and insignificant we are. It reminds us of the delicate balance in this universe on which we gamble each day. The Earth's history has seen enormous devastations in the form of natural disasters. They make us sit back and rethink about our social, moral and even ethical responsibilities and question ourselves... are we doing our bit of duty as earthlings?

I take a look at my surroundings, I see the bustling streets and the crowd. I look further up there and I see the vast sky. As I close my eyes to visualize this earth hanging in this galaxy with a billion other ... supposedly lifeless objects, I get overwhelmed.

I am forced to take a moment out and contemplate on what I am doing on this earth. I feel great thinking how lucky I am to be where I am. All the feelings of greed, hatred and envy just look meaningless in the awe of the universe I belong to. The latest scientific study inspired by self-help author Mel Robbin's Ted Talk says that the way we are born, in the given point of earth's time-frame, and at the given place is an incidence counted as one in 400 trillion. Yes... that is like 4 multiplied by 10 for about 14 times! Isn't that a miracle? It is extraordinary and as the famous motivational author Robin Sharma rightly says.. "Today" is a Miracle.

In a civilization, we count ourselves as commoners and give power into the hands of those who have the most to serve and deliver. The person with highest power has the most responsibility. Realizing the fact that we are one in 400 trillion, I understand, we humans are not just special, but we are extraordinary, having got so much of power within us...!

The question is... are we living a life that is worth the power we are bestowed with? Are we serving and delivering our duties to our giver... to our Mother Earth? Its time we stop and see where we are going and ask ourselves these questions. I can only recall JayZ's famous words as I ask myself these questions... but "I choose to rather Die enormous, than Live Dormant". This is life... visibly tiny and potentially enormous.