Life – Expect the Unexpected

by:
Tharmila Shabanathan

Life is about living. When I hear the word ‘life’ the first things that comes to my mind is being alive, studying, being able to do things you like and most of all being happy. So what happens when something in life goes wrong? For example someone dieing, how long does it take for us to recover from someone’s death and can all of us really recover from something as tragic as someone’s death.

Mr. Thamilchelvan’s death was very unexpected. Just as much as the Tsunami. All our homes would have gone through the stage where the T.V was tuned onto programs on Mr.Thamilchelvan and if we tried to change the channel we get a big lecture on how today’s teens don’t care about what’s happening to our home land and our fighters but in fact all we would have tried to do was to make a change so that the house is not full of crying and grumpiness. In a way you can avoid these unexpected events if you try really hard or can you? Will fate catch up? I know I’ve been bombarding you with questions but it is relevant; even though I’m saying ‘expect the unexpected’ I still don’t know the answer to these questions myself. But what ever happens how much control do we as humans have over these happenings.

Mr. Thamilchelvan’s sudden death did shake everyone as we all looked up to him after Mr. Anton Balasingham died and as the death trails continues it is hard to bare. But we must remember that for our fighters and representatives death follows them everywhere they go and sooner or later it comes. I know some of you reading this must hate me or even say “ how would you feel like if your loved one or family dies” and yes I agree, I would feel gutted. I might not have even been in a stable mind to write about it as I am doing now but on a personal note I do feel sorry, I too cried when I saw his coffin. I wish he finally finds freedom where he has gone now!!!

Going back to my article of life, here’s what someone said what they thought live was “…I think…living the best life is to be honest, loyal, trustworthy, kind, loving, caring, patient, good, helpful, understanding, hard working etc…be wise in all our decisions we make. As you all know, for us it is so easy to fall into traps easily. There are many temptations and desires for us young people…be kind to one another, and even though problems come your way, you will be able to deal with them...” But is all this possible.? Can we say “no” to something just because we know it’s wrong to do and how many of us can actually say “no”. In certain situation in life, however you try it’s just impossible (even though my dad always saying nothing is impossible) you have to be in someone’s shoes to know. When ever we go through a stage in life where we want to do something that we must not do we tend to hope for the best and think we will get away with it but in the end you suffer the consequences in the end. Who really does get away with doing something bad in life, even if it’s something small or big expect God to punish you for your bad actions. So in life if you “Expect the unexpected and you will never be disappointed”.

But not everyone can expect everything and it is good to always think positive. If we knew what was going to happen we would all be perfect so take care guys and don’t think too much…after all in life if we knew everything we wouldn’t be called human.

Comments

hi

you are a person who does not understand what life is and what indenity we hold and meaning of life. I am very sorry to say that you have never leant anything soi far.

First of all, what evidence you have that Tamils had a country in Sri Lanka. Do you know and anyone whio claimed that we had a country. I am telling you that.

1. We have a territory where Tamils live. Part of our territry have been taken away by colonisation. Stil we hold some of them.
2. We have an unwritten law. Most of the countries have written law tha can be amended replace or removed. Our law acn not be replaced, amend. This is called Thesawalai. This For every aspect of laws, there are reasons. For example, Chithanam (not dowry - some people think that chiothanam and docry are same thing).This is a law of inheritatnce. parents give property to their girls new family . The prioperties are owned by girsls while husbands and wifes collecrtivelky control. If marriage is broken down the propert go back where they come from. Girls who got chithanam can not get anything from their parents property but can give the property to the pool of properies to claim share of the parents properties after parents death. These are very sensible thing. Sri Lankan Parliament can not amende this law because this is un written law.
3. Tradition. People of Tamil eelam behave certain way. Sinhalese wont behave the same way Tamils behave.
Married women have evidence that they got married the same way married men have evidednce. Thaly, kunkuma poddu and thadayam. They are not sympol of slavery the way you think.
4. Culture: Tamil culture is different from sinhalese culture. Cultural ceremonies are common among tamils. Ponga is the Tamils new year (unfortunately some thing Hindu new year is the Tamil new year. That is only North indian dog's new year. Vanmeeki ramayan is different fromKampar ramayanam. Tamils used to worshipped only the nature before the north indian invaded tamils land in Indian subcontinent which belong to Dravidian only.
5. civilisation

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excellent article. i like ur

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excellent article. i like ur

excellent article. i like ur writings.
ply forward ur artles to yubankk@gmail.com

i do it today rather than wait for tommorow

Sagi

Firstly, i would like to say that you are a very talented writer, who grabs people's attention very easily.The way you think about life, love, family and social life, are very similar to the way i think and i totally agree with more or less everything you write on oru paper.

However, this article is the most interesting article i read from you. Unexpected things happen very often in my life. Thats why, i alway do it today rather than wait for tomorow.

Thank you Sagi...

Thank you Sagi for your comment... it's people like you that encourage me in writing and helps me keep going; and for that I thank you very much... I know I don't spend a lot of time with my articles as I have studies and work and of course family to look after, but I do try my best to keep writing and keep going. I feel that It's a great opportunity to not just keep your emotions inside your hearts, but let it out.

How about you? Are you interested in writing? I asked because you said I think like you so it would be great if you can write a few articles yourself. New articles are always highly accepted by the TEENS ORU PAPER team so when you are free and you feel like sharing something with the world don't feel shy to write.

Thanks again... and keep reading ORU PAPER!!!

Tharmila Shabanathan