Life changes fast...

Usually people don't respect their life as they don't imagine that death could be too close to them at any instance. The recent attacks in Mumbai must surely have made many of them respect their lives. In a short period of 4 hours the fastest city in India was turned into ruins and curfew due to a well coordinated attack in the heart of Mumbai. The final toll was 195 and more than 500 people were injured as terrorist rampaged the city of Mumbai.
For me it was nothing less that death of Mumbai. Death of security system, death of beliefs, death of freedom and death of what the city stands for. People say one may be a very strong person but death of someone you love might still break the person in you.
I realized this only after the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai.I have been in love with Mumbai for last 25 years, I truly have. This city has given me everything I have today. My identity, my beliefs, my respect, my education and now even my job. Watching the live streaming from my office was tearing my heart apart. I realized how hard the death of someone you love can be. I couldn't catch a wink of sleep that night. The sights of Taj burning, terrorists firing on common people couldn't just get out of my head.
Before this incident, I least cared about my life, took unnecessary risks and laughed them away. But this incident made me realize how important my life can be to people around me. Even though they may not benefit from me being there, but the realization that I am there for them will keep them going. Also I realized that there are many things I kept on postponing till I felt the time was right. But now I realize that the time is right when you want it to be. So I sat don to write down what all I wanted to do from bottom of my heart but couldn't due to fear,laziness, availability of yet another day and what not! I think I have procrastinated many decisions in the past few months which I will do as soon as possible...
I decided that I will change. I will try to do whatever I aspire to do in my life ahead of time as you never know...there just might not be a next day for you!!