So if you know someone, and you know he/she is going to be a part of your life only for a very short while, what do you do?
It's not like he/she has a deadline or an expiry date.
Lets say this person is going off someplace very far. Like Easter Islands, where they don't have facebook. Or gmail. Or prepaid cards. Or pigeons.
Or lets say if this person is going to war in the Himalayas. And you know that he is gonna be incommunicado?
You have about anywhere between two weeks to a month.
Would you rather spend maximum time with this person or would you try to detach yourself from him, slowly withdraw yourself and let him fade away into distant memory?
That's a tricky one, innit?
Now what if you are going to kill this person? That you are certain that death is going to be delivered to him from your hands. The date and location hasn't been fixed yet, but its gonna come hit him real soon.
What would you do?
Would you get closer and closer and closer and slowly suffocate him or go away, step back, one step at a time, step by step, step by step until you are a distant dot and then snipe him from far?
I haven't decided yet.
For every step back, I am taking one forward.
But I know for sure...
I am become death.
śrī bhagavān uvāca
kālo 'smi lokakṣayakṛt pravṛddho; lokān samāhartum iha pravṛttaḥ
ṛte 'pi tvā na bhaviṣyanti sarve; ye 'vasthitāḥ pratyanīkeṣu yodhāḥ (11:32 = MBh 6.33.32)
"The Lord Said:
Doom am I, full-ripe, dealing death to the worlds, engaged in devouring mankind.
Even without your slaying them not one of the warriors, ranged for battle against thee, shall survive."
-Bhagavad Gita
