Life..

Is this the real life?

Is this just fantasy?

Caught in a landslide

No escape from reality

When Freddie Mercury wrote Bohemian Rhapsody, he had no idea he would ever have AIDS-infact, no one had ever heard about it. But if you listen to the song keeping in mind that he was diagnosed of AIDS and died due to it (something which was brought to my mind when i saw artistes unlimited's cover of the song-which, by the way, was brilliant), you sometimes feel that destiny is not just a word-its more than that.

Mama, ooo

Didn't mean to make you cry

If I'm not back again this time tomorrow

Carry on, carry on,

as if nothing really matters

No matter how less you try to think about philosophy, there are moments in your life when you can't avoid doing it and this moment was one of those which made me, a highly "un-philosophical" person to think about how, unintentionally and unknowingly, we might prophecise about our future. And to think Freddie's not the only example (there have been writers who've found themselves in a similar position that they placed one of their characters into) does give you the creeps. Who knows we might say something in a chirpy little informal talk and find that that something is creeping its way into our life?

Too late, my time has come

Sends shivers down my spine

Body's aching all the time

Goodbye everybody - I've got to go...

They say "You shape your own destinies." , but do we do so when we think we are doing so or does it happen at such times when we are never really thinking about life? Does it mean life plays its trump card when you turn your face away? Does that make life "opportunistic", or in more common, yet less acceptable parlance, a "b***h"?

Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, ooo - (anyway the wind blows)
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

Frankly, it does and it does not. It does because that defines opportunism and it does not because it teaches us a lesson. It tells us in plain simple words that if we can't think about life all the time (which i'm sure no one can), there's no use doing it at all, 'cuz life being the metaphorical "b***h" will still use the moments we turn away to shape itself. Hence, its better to not think about life and to just live it as it comes. That is, it's better to be here and it's better to be here NOW.

(When I started writing this, I didnt know which direction it would go to, yet it eventually ended up preaching the "live in the present" adage. Maybe this proves the worthiness of this particular saying...maybe we SHOULD live in the present...maybe...)

(Sorry for resuming blogging with such a philosphical post, but if you see this, you'll know why i wrote this. The prose, by the way, comprises of extracts of the lyrics of the song.)