Immortality

A popular film director Ismail Merchant gave his reasons for getting married on a talk show.

“When people visit your house, they ask how many children you have. They don’t ask how much money you have earned?”

Unfortunately, he died of a cardiac problem before he could get married.

dreams unfulfilled
children unborn
so good, so bad
only in my thoughts
Will I revise
long-term plans at
the stroke of dawn?

In my social circle, I hear of people talking of children as ‘an investment for the future’. Society is changing fast, and children do not feel compelled to take care of parents forever. They move on with their own lives, quite often to other countries.

For some, watching their own reflections floating around in the world satisfy their vanity.

little people
bits of my soul
will blossom soon
-in colors, shapes
different from my own
controlling minds
-IMPOSSIBLE

For me, leaving a legacy is the highest form of vanity.

The words I write and the thoughts I share will be relegated to the bins of the deep web. The only value it holds is the immediate response I get, or the discussions it generates. The same applies to whatever good deeds I do to help someone.

footprints
on sand – mirage
like far-off horizons
immortality lies in here
and now

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Reena’s Xploration Challenge #259

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