I planned your death didn't I? I am not talking about dividing the property equally among the children or paying off the loan or deleting WhatsApp or saying sorry to someone or seeing someone for the last time or eating favorite dishes or coming back to a favorite place or fulfilling last wishes etc. . I am talking about how you will be talked about after death, in what context people will remember you, how people will remember you… you have thought about this right? Just watched a movie 'Vijay 69' on Netflix. The film is interesting. This movie made me think. Age is not an obligation to do anything till the last breath, or to do anything new, or age is just a number etc., if we leave aside the motivation, this film raises a question in front of us, the answer of which needs to be found. Happens. The story of the film is something. All are gathered in one church. It is assumed that 69-year-old Vijay died by jumping into the sea. Instead of looking for the body of virtue, everyone gathers in the church and prays for the virtue of the soul. One of Vijay's friends gets up to talk about Vijay and at the same time the one whom Vijay has assumed to be dead comes and stands at the door. He hears his obituary from his friend and is shocked… Hey, Main Aisa Kahan Tha! After that Vijay sleeps in the coffin placed in the room. A man has to sleep in a coffin when he is forced to cut off from outside noise. Vijay starts to hear the commotion inside and the first question he asks is…Salnu, will these people remember me like this after I die? And in the 69th year of life, this old man sets out to find his identity. Say, what do you want, how do people remember you? After 60 years of life, those who have nothing to do, who instead of accepting the loneliness that comes with it, drag it like a trick, are not ready to take off the thorn of responsibility on the assumption that no one else is doing the work but me, who have a pile of grievances. My appeal to all the elderly is that the time you spend on all these activities should be used for death planning. Think, how will people remember you after you're gone? How will you know? How will they talk about you? They will regret your untimely or on time departure or make futile attempts to fill the empty space after your departure. Make a will but strengthen the 'will'. This is an interesting job to do. You have to work on your posthumous identity all your life. Suppose you want people to recognize you as a brilliant man after your death, first check if people think you are brilliant now, right? Have you done anything that showcases your brilliance? Are people obsessed with your brilliance now? Are people now discussing your brilliance? If not… then start working in that direction. Start trying to spread your brilliance to people. Some people want to be counted as good people after death and the same person keeps fighting with people around him for no reason during his life. If you want people to recognize you as a good person after your death, then stop the pointless head-butting. Start giving people good memories. Stop complaining. Also retire from finding fault with the other person. Stop making assumptions. Come out of the pride that turns a man's eye and I know. Stop peeking into your children's lives. The children will automatically open every window and door towards you. We shudder at the mere thought of dying. A man used to pray to God every day saying, O God! It is better to give him death than to give him such a life… God used to listen to his prayers every day and give that man different excuses to experience life. Instead of looking at those experiences, the man was playing a single game. Death is better than such crushing loneliness of old age… God took his prayer seriously one day and sent Yamaraj to that man's door. Seeing Yamraj standing in front of his eyes, he trembled. He again started praying to God. May God call Yamaraj back….Still the son has not come there…The daughter has not been married yet! It seems to me that every man should begin to work on his posthumous identity in his retirement. For the identification of a living man we have 'Aadhaar', no such 'Aadhaar' is useful for the identification of a dead man. As conscious as I am of my identity in life, I am equally conscious of my identity after my passing and I have begun to work on it…what do you say?
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