
Elders did not say without reason that human life is fleeting. One cannot say for certain whether a person alive now will be around the next minute—or even the next second. Death is an unpredictable event for humans.
While birth and death were once mysteries beyond human control, childbirth has now become something humans can manage; people consult astrologers to choose auspicious times and schedule hospital deliveries.
This isn't necessarily wrong—everyone has their own beliefs, and many trust that a child born at an auspicious time will rise to a high status in the future. As for death, humans have worked hard to postpone it, yet they have never managed to conquer it completely.
Perhaps that is for the best; otherwise, life would just be an endless cycle of earning and spending money—what else would there be to it? After all, an object or a living being holds value only because it has an expiration date; living forever would eventually become monotonous.
These days, if you turn on the news, you are bombarded with reports of accidents and mishaps everywhere. Watching all this, one feels that simply staying alive this long is nothing short of good fortune.
Just think about it: you could be walking along the road when a car—its brakes having failed—comes up from behind and hits you, potentially costing you your life right then and there. Our lives have effectively ended up in the hands of others; no matter how careful we are, the people around us need to be just as cautious, or else things could go terribly wrong.
As for today, I had headed to the office early because of a scheduled audit, but it ended up being postponed until tomorrow. With nothing else to do, I attended to some pending tasks and returned home early in the evening. After that, I went for a short walk, took a shower, and went to bed.
The content is originally written in my native language and converted into English on Google translate
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