Thursday, February 12, 2009

A Cruel Quirk of Fate.......

How can fate play oddity with you, one can never imagine. I am going to share a real incident from Kendrapada.

A forest department employee is paid Rs 70 per day for taking care of his father's killer. The 25 year old youth's job is to take care of estuarine crocodiles, including one that killed his father eight years ago, kept by department in Bhitarkankia Wildlife Sanctuary.

When his father died he had no other options open before him, rather than to take up the job. he is also doing his job with honesty and dedication. Fate has really played a cruel joke on him.

There are many lessons to be learnt from this young man's life. He fought with himself, put his loved ones infront of him and adapted to situation. Many of you may call this as complacent attitude to life but we must all realize fate is an external entity and we donot have any control over any external entity. But still it keeps provoking a question in me 'Is This called Survival of the fittest??'

3 comments:

Unknown said...

a real cruel play of fate i must say...bt life is all about adjusting n moving on :) ...gud work :)

--Jignyanshu -- said...

This is his necessity for his survival yar....

Tamsin said...

well written, no doubt, but aren't we attributing the conscience of a human killer to a mammal one here? the child here would more fear as to being the victim of a similar fate as his father was, rather than harboring any thoughts of revenge..