Today morning my father was talking of the importance of relations and friends in life. He says they are the best insurance one can ever have! I disagree with him completely.
I have only two friends for life. I realized the existence of these friends much later…when I began thinking in a matured manner. These friends are like shadows…they follow me everywhere and anywhere. They are never separate from me. Your own shadow may not be with you when there is no light, but these shadowy friends follow me even when there is no light!!
The name of my first friend is ‘My Knowledge’. It is said knowledge in the hands of a wrong person is destructive. I Disagree. It is not knowledge; it is ignorance that is destructive. Knowledge always wants the good, the welfare of the entire society and of the universe. It is the ignorance that creates selfishness…not knowledge. My first friend is ‘My Knowledge’. I say ‘My Knowledge’ is my friend because it can never fail me… it can never leave me… it can never be stolen… because I have befriended him by burning the midnight oil.
My second friend is ‘My Death’. ‘My Death’ follows me like a shadow even if there is no light. There is no other option for any human being other than befriending him. If you’re not friends with death, then you’re living dead. When you become friends with death then you know how to live life to the full. ‘My Death’ is a silent partner. He won’t speak to me, and he won’t say anything good or bad. Once he told me… ‘Gopal, I am always with you. When your first friend ‘My Knowledge’ deserts then I will come to your rescue. In other words, when My Knowledge deserts me then ‘My Death’ takes over!
What is knowledge? Absence of ignorance is knowledge. What is death? Absence of life is death. What is darkness? It is the absence of light. I only have two friends – ‘My Knowledge’ and ‘My Death’.
About the Author
Dr. K. Raja Gopal Reddy is a seasoned internationally qualified Insurance professional.
What you are reading here, may not answer all the questions we have, but has the absolute power of asking unsettling questions which increase the interest in the strange world, and show the contradictory wonders lying just below the surface of the commonest things of life. Look at this disturbing but beautiful thought of Friedrich Nietzsche “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him”.
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