Life... unpredicatable

Long day in front of the PC. Massive code in front.F10 and F11 all going through my head.Eyes all hazy , I climb into the nice luxury bus of my company. Removing the tie and unbuttoning the collar button is such a relief!
Cannot wait to reach home and have mom's hot and fresh meal and dad's super salad.

Was sitting next to Manish. He had returned after a decent diwali break of 10 days from Pune and was seeing him at the end of the day today.
Looked a bit lost and after the initial crappy talk we always have, he just came up about his friend in Pune.
Said his friend had lost his entire family the day after Diwali. His mom,dad,brother, granny and grandpa were all in that car on which the entire tanker had collapsed. All had died on the spot.
Everything was quiete when he said that. Had a big gulping feeling and asked about who that guy was.
Manish went on about that guy for 10 minutes. Said he is a real nice dude , who had an amazing family.
His dad was really great. A bussinessman who spent and loved his son like crazy.
Had got him bikes,mobiles and computer ..anything he wanted. Always come down from Deljhi to visit him.
And now everything was like gone.
THe entire family had come down to Pune to celebrate Diwali with their son.
The next day they were to go Meerut. THey were going to the station when while overtaking a tanker and when they were parallel to it and at high speed, the tankers tyre gave way and the entire tanker fell on their car flat.
It sounded real horrific and I said it sounded a bit too incredible to be actually true.
But as fate would have it, that was what had actually happened. At that very instant of time, no sooner , no later did the tyre had to give way, the tanker had to collapse and on their very car.

I did not know Manish's friend but his entirely family was wiped out in an instant.
The previuos day they were laughing and enjoying and now its all bloody.
I did not know that person, yet I felt the deepest for that guy at that moment.
What can you say to a person like that now . That everything will be fine?... What can be fine now? That I understand how ou feel? Can anyone really understand what and how he feels.
A person who had been pampered and whom life had treated so well is suddenly left gasping for life.
I was just thinking, that how can life change so disasterously for a person.
I asked Manish where he was now and whats he doing.
I was really wondering whats keeping him alive.
For me, I live for my family. My whole existence , my whole purpose in my life is my family. If God forbid, such a creepy thing ever happens, I really dont know what would be the point of my existence.
He said that he was in Delhi and his girlfriend had flown down from Banglore to be with him.

I thanked God that he had a person left to care about him. Guess that girl must be his only source of inspiration or maybe not, but he had someone to be with, atleast for a while.

Life can be so extremely unpredictable. All of this what happened has actually appened to a person. His dad, his mom , his brother. God. How can anyone be so cruel.
It just makes you feel powerless. Makes you feel how much you love and care for your family.
Made me feel like going and telling my folks how much they all mean to me and I would rather die than anything else happen to them.

Its something you cant plan, cant be prepared for. The entire bus ride to the station was a heav load. But at the end of it, you cant control life.
Maybe there is something really special in store for that person to live and enjoy life for.
Hard to imagine but life is unpredicatable... Live every moment of it and I know it sounds real filmy and cliched but tell your family and show your folks that you love them and they mean the entire world to you!...

Peace!