Whatever Happens..!!

I was reading this post "Hypothetical Scenarios: If you were ever held at gunpoint, what would you say to the gunman" on quora the other day. Though, I didn't realize 'why' then...

Every time I hear about an incident that involves someone held at gunpoint, it scratches the surface of an event buried deep down somewhere, something I had gotten over the very next hour it happened. I never did think or felt the need to think about it again(until a few days back, and I don't know why), nor did I converse about it with anyone, neither family nor friends. I know it happened(what/why/how for some other day, and in some other post) but I am cent percent, at peace with this memory ever since it occurred. An experience that taught me a great deal about life, about how important it is to smell the roses.

“There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...” 

― John Lennon

I always mocked at those scenes in movies, in which the protagonist goes into a realm of flashback, moment(s) before they die or are about to die, thinking of all that they missed to do and/or people they couldn't bid adieu to, one last time. I thought that did not make any sense, no one could think about anything else but getting out of that situation, saving their lives(somehow) when faced with a deadly situation like that. There is no doubt it could be different for each person.

When that barrel was pressed hard against the back of my head, I learnt more than I could in a rather long time..

• Smell the roses, while you can, life could be too short and unimaginably unpredictable.
• Closures are important, including the last goodbye to your loved ones, family, friends and well-wishers.
• Human brain is astonishing. The number and the spectrum of thoughts that could run through, in a split second, could never be gauged.
• Survival instincts are hard-wired, doesn't require any practice.
• And now, when it's over : "Whatever happens, I'm ready to face it."  ― Ernie Harwell .. All set to face worst of the worst :-)