Departure
DEPARTURE ‘The best way to predict your future is to create it.’ I found this amazing quote and thought that hard work, careful planning and ‘seizing the right moment’ is the key to success. But there is something called destiny or fate which cannot be altered. Ultimately it is ‘Man proposes and God disposes’ dictum which we should live by. Our time on earth is all marked and fixed. Still we forget and become emotionally attached to a lot of situations and things. In the medical institute where I work, I heard this touching story about a case which occurred in the ward for terminally ill patients. A post graduate student was about to declare the death of a patient who was dying due to cancer. She had been with this patient during the last many days when he had been dying slowly but certainly. Being a medic, she was well aware of the prognosis of the disease and knew that there in fact was no remedy and it was just a matter of time before the final moment came. When the soul leaves t