DIE HARD

Who knows what lies ahead? Time does not predict its path. It keeps ticking and makes humans reach unimaginable destinations of life. The fighting spirit of humans keeps them alive and keeps them ready to savage the challenge. After all, mayhem and chaos rules the roost in human lives, isn’t it? Each stage of life is filled with paradoxes and humans have to be strong to weather the unpredictable storms.

In the 1988 thriller, Die Hard - New York City policeman John McClane is visiting his estranged wife and two daughters on Christmas Eve. He joins her at a holiday party in the headquarters of the business she works for. But the festivities are interrupted by a group of terrorists who take over the exclusive high-rise, and everyone in it. Very soon McClane realizes that there's no one to save the hostages -- but him. The character of the movie depicts every human as every now and then a situation arises where there is no one to act- but the involved human himself! There is no escape from the harsh realities, the bitter truths and many other such insensitivity which continuously envelope the human lives. All that it needs is an effort from the human to get up and rise like a Gladiator to face the situation.

Can humans escape from the challenges that they meet in their lives? Yes, they can!! Would anyone agree with this statement? The World has been configured so intricately that it is easy to recognize who will fight against the odds and who would not. So, this does mean that humans can escape from the challenges that they meet in their lives. Humans have various mechanisms at their disposal which they can effectively deploy to circumvent the odds in their lives. Many of these mechanisms involve putting other humans in the line of fire and misusing their trust and benevolence. But, who cares? The purpose is to meet the challenge and overcoming the same without any threat. Little do the humans realize that with each such step they are increasing the stakes and making the future more challenging for the next generation.

Have a careful look at our homes, societies and professional arenas. Analyze just that little about what is going on right and what is going on wrong. One will agree that not all is right and there are more wrongs than right!! If one analyzes more closely on the wrongs, it would throw a startling fact. Wrong does not become wrong till a human wants it to be wrong!!! Should the entire human arena pay the penalty of just one human desiring of doing a wrong and making others join the same chorus? The Planet is choking and who does not know about it? Still, humans continue to choose the wrong over right.

Let us take the example of a job. Each job is taught by some human to the new comer. Do we mean to prove that humans have been teaching wrongly to their successive generations? The wrongs in human lives throw out an interesting analytics and maybe the answer to the question is a broad Yes!! Competition is the bedrock of the humanity. After all the fittest will only survive, right? The fittest will never get decided in one go. The decision to remain fit needs long term investments and the correct ones. The fittest who dream to survive the onslaught of time have to be 100% fit as almost fit or partial compliance will not help otherwise. A continuous adjustment and improvement is warranted and cannot be circumvented in any case. 

The World around humans is a maze. It wears and tires humans. No one can escape from the maze and tiredness that is associated with it. It is but natural to get tired and everyone needs that proverbial rest to rejuvenate. One would realize that it a faster rejuvenation when tiredness is simple and that of pure hard work. Tiredness is long when the human mind rakes complexities which trouble many other lives. The maze of life then gets meaner and worse to navigate. Every human is defatigable and susceptible to defeat. Valor coupled with true values enables humans to remain indefatigable for a longer time. 

In the end, all humans are alone and have to meet the quest of their respective lives. It is better meet the situation on your own and effort should be to simplify the issues for a longer benefit. There is always a price for chaos and someone has to pay it. One who reaps today, pays it at a later date. The wheel of life does not pardon mistakes. Die Hard is not the right approach that is what some would say. But, don’t you think that John McClane did the right thing by volunteering to solve the complex problem? He went into the complexity alone and saved many a humans. It would be worthwhile to ease out the issues rather than leaving them out into the open. Issues would be created by erring humans to reap their own scrupulous benefits. Good must win over the bad as the fable goes. Good must win over the bad, isn’t it? Keep the life simple and straight. Many would have to become Die Hards to keep this World going. There is no choice, so better be a Die Hard. Time brings forth this truth in front of humans every time. It is a jungle out there.

Do you have it in you, eh!