Monday, September 17, 2007
Yet another Sunset
Note: I had sent this out to a few friends on March 7th, 2007. Placing on this Blog now (so I can link it from another narrative I'm doing in Sept 2007!).
Dear friends and family,
I was coming back home in the auto one evening. Yes, I’m still communting in these “put-puts” - single engine very noisy and dusty popular commuter vehicles --- signature of Bangalore city. What would we do without that noise, I wonder? But, most all of them run on natural gas – so can’t say they are polluting the air as much J
Yonder was a beautiful sunset… across on the horizon from the military camp just next to the EGL SW park…(The Embassy Golf Link Software Tech Park that NetApp, IBM, Microsoft, Target, ANZ, LG Soft and so many other companies are part of…Yahoo soon to join)
A cool breeze was blowing, amist the noise, I began to reflect upon life…. There was so much life around … crowds ….. But recently, I had heard of many lost lives…sudden deaths…news of these almost one every week, for the past several weeks now. It’s quite shocking…
A senior manager at work lost her husband – he was just 40 years old. A simple ailment led to some complexities I was told. The office poured in for help with blood donations, but it ended in his tragic demise, after all.
A colleague’s cousin, a young woman, mother of 2 little girls succumbed at her job. She was a 32 year old school teacher in Kerala. My colleague was to go on a North-India trip and had taken a vacation. He told this story when he returned, having to cancel his holiday trip and attend a funeral instead!!
A couple of weekends ago, a bank reprentative was to visit our home for an appointment. He did not show up or call for a couple of days. After a week he told us this tragic story. A young 27 year old man, married 2 months ago, dropped dead while playing cricket. He was batting, hit two runs, took a break due to shortness of breath. They rushed him across to St. Johns hospital but he was pronounced dead on arrival!
A nephew told us about a 30 year old employee at his company – a manager. He just swooned at work and died before they took him to the hospital.
Middle of Feb, my sis-in-law called saying that the 90th birthday of her dad was cancelled. Because her cousin passed away in his sleep. He was the yongest of 4 brothers and dear to her dad. He had a heart ailment but was recovering well and had learnt to live with the condition for a while now.
There was a news article – quite shocking. A 50 year old artist – bharatnatyam dancer, was on the stage, playing the beat (natuvangam) for her student or another artist. In the middle of the concert, she got up and went to the bathroom. Never came back we heard – succumned in the restroom itself. Her name was Padmini Rao.
And we followed some of Anna Nicole Smith's funeral news – she dropped dead at 39! And was laid to rest next to her son Daniel in the Bahamas on Mar 2nd. The story of her death may be very different from other “ordinary” people though.
Is this all due to our current way of life? The pressures, the stresses, the environment, the food we eat and our diets, also our jobs and lack of the physical exersions? It’s very shocking, indeed!
Maybe this is just a sign of more to come…. Unless we act now, and act fast?
Time is the best healer…. For our tragedies, of losses of near and dear ones. Eating well has become so very important. “Wellness and Wellbeing” are becoming very familiar terms over here and all around the world, I suppose.
….. And then there was a centenarian. My nephews’s great grand uncle – died a few months before his 104th birthday this Feb.
There was another lady who died at 104 :
http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1220913.mostviewed.104year_old_alice_dies.php
(Centenarian Wiki page! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centenarian)
I found this interesting link on the web: Where people live longest and why?
http://www.nohypehealth.org/dakoma.html
Health, Wealth and Happiness – what’s the latter two without the first? There seems to be a huge “Focus on Health and Wellness” now
Wish you all the best of health!
The dawn of a new day is always a new beginning and brings hope. I’ll end this relfection with a picture of one morning’s sunrise from the east balcony of our flat.
- Sri Lakshmi (Cheema)
Dear friends and family,
I was coming back home in the auto one evening. Yes, I’m still communting in these “put-puts” - single engine very noisy and dusty popular commuter vehicles --- signature of Bangalore city. What would we do without that noise, I wonder? But, most all of them run on natural gas – so can’t say they are polluting the air as much J
Yonder was a beautiful sunset… across on the horizon from the military camp just next to the EGL SW park…(The Embassy Golf Link Software Tech Park that NetApp, IBM, Microsoft, Target, ANZ, LG Soft and so many other companies are part of…Yahoo soon to join)
A cool breeze was blowing, amist the noise, I began to reflect upon life…. There was so much life around … crowds ….. But recently, I had heard of many lost lives…sudden deaths…news of these almost one every week, for the past several weeks now. It’s quite shocking…
A senior manager at work lost her husband – he was just 40 years old. A simple ailment led to some complexities I was told. The office poured in for help with blood donations, but it ended in his tragic demise, after all.
A colleague’s cousin, a young woman, mother of 2 little girls succumbed at her job. She was a 32 year old school teacher in Kerala. My colleague was to go on a North-India trip and had taken a vacation. He told this story when he returned, having to cancel his holiday trip and attend a funeral instead!!
A couple of weekends ago, a bank reprentative was to visit our home for an appointment. He did not show up or call for a couple of days. After a week he told us this tragic story. A young 27 year old man, married 2 months ago, dropped dead while playing cricket. He was batting, hit two runs, took a break due to shortness of breath. They rushed him across to St. Johns hospital but he was pronounced dead on arrival!
A nephew told us about a 30 year old employee at his company – a manager. He just swooned at work and died before they took him to the hospital.
Middle of Feb, my sis-in-law called saying that the 90th birthday of her dad was cancelled. Because her cousin passed away in his sleep. He was the yongest of 4 brothers and dear to her dad. He had a heart ailment but was recovering well and had learnt to live with the condition for a while now.
There was a news article – quite shocking. A 50 year old artist – bharatnatyam dancer, was on the stage, playing the beat (natuvangam) for her student or another artist. In the middle of the concert, she got up and went to the bathroom. Never came back we heard – succumned in the restroom itself. Her name was Padmini Rao.
And we followed some of Anna Nicole Smith's funeral news – she dropped dead at 39! And was laid to rest next to her son Daniel in the Bahamas on Mar 2nd. The story of her death may be very different from other “ordinary” people though.
Is this all due to our current way of life? The pressures, the stresses, the environment, the food we eat and our diets, also our jobs and lack of the physical exersions? It’s very shocking, indeed!
Maybe this is just a sign of more to come…. Unless we act now, and act fast?
Time is the best healer…. For our tragedies, of losses of near and dear ones. Eating well has become so very important. “Wellness and Wellbeing” are becoming very familiar terms over here and all around the world, I suppose.
….. And then there was a centenarian. My nephews’s great grand uncle – died a few months before his 104th birthday this Feb.
There was another lady who died at 104 :
http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1220913.mostviewed.104year_old_alice_dies.php
(Centenarian Wiki page! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centenarian)
I found this interesting link on the web: Where people live longest and why?
http://www.nohypehealth.org/dakoma.html
Health, Wealth and Happiness – what’s the latter two without the first? There seems to be a huge “Focus on Health and Wellness” now
Wish you all the best of health!
The dawn of a new day is always a new beginning and brings hope. I’ll end this relfection with a picture of one morning’s sunrise from the east balcony of our flat.
- Sri Lakshmi (Cheema)
# posted by Sri Renganathan @ 2:18 AM 
