Random or by Design

I get scared when I read about what happened to Michael Schumacher. I am not a car racing fan, I do admit loving top gear but its more for the personalities of those three guys than the cars. What happened to Michael makes no sense to me, logically if he had to be down with a head injury it should have happened during his racing career, not on a skiing holiday. There was not even an avalanche and he is in tremendous shape... remember his neck muscles. Still he is rightnow in coma after surviving a high risk career and lifestyle.

It’s funny when the strongest people around you succumb to depression, the intelligent ones to disease and the idiot of the family bordering on retardation is left to explore life’s endless possibilities. It’s funny that some live on to the age of 79 and are still acting in movies and get nominated for an Oscar but couldn’t attend it because they were shooting another movie in India. Couldn’t guess who, this 79 year old lady was nominated for best actress, still couldn’t guess... no it’s not Meryl Streep. It’s Judy Dench. She has acted in Bond films as ‘M’. Amazing life.

Yesterday was the 2014 Oscars, for those people nominated it would have been a high point in their lives, their one of ‘their best days’. For someone else on the planet, it was their worst day. This picture at the bottom captures that- best day moment for a few. But simultaneously someone was having a mildly bad day, a very bad day, a horrifyingly bad day and someone was having a boring day and decided to write about it. I had my ‘worst day till now of my life’ last year, so I have become a little more appreciative of the boring days and the disappointing days. I think I don’t mind having those for a few more years.

As I get older and as I see those older around me I wonder if we have any say in the life we live, there are the proactive people who have reached the top of their chosen careers and still had bad endings. There are those who have a stream of bad choices but end-up having a dignified end of life. If we knew what was ahead of us, what lies behind that curb, would we walk at all?  

I guess the greatest mystery in life is people and the lives they lead or are led on.