Texas Tower mass Murder
I'm sure of it, the Texas tower- in university of Texas Austin is associated with many and more triumphs than tragedies. But as majority of all of us are negatively biased most of the world will recognize Texas tower as the place where a mass shooting happened. In this article I am not going to describe brutal killings of a crazy man but how life can change in a matter of few seconds at any time during any day of our lives. To understand better, I recommend you watch animation movie Documentary Tower 2016.
It starts with describing lives of few ordinary college students and some men and women who lived nearby. And even an ordinary day of a cop, who finally put an end to the massacre of killing 15 men and women even unborn child on August 1st, 1966. I wondered what could have happened if I walked in the garden that day. With ambitions in my head to become a future artist, trying to be graduated with colors. Trying to be a writer with Shakespear in my hand I would be walking like any other ordinary student that day. And out of nowhere I would feel some pain in my stomach and collapse to the ground like a log with blood. It could have been the end of everything which I call life for myself. Or it could have been worse that I survived with severe injuries and disabled for life. I'm glad that I wasn't there that day. It was even few decades before that incident even happen.
Now when I think about it, who walked on the same premises 70 years ago as students, most of them are no longer living. Time is the greatest silent killer. And for this demon which is called time would shoot every one of us eventually one day. So, death is part of life. It can come when we are young rarely, and old, commonly yet inevitably. It's not just in autumn leaves fall. At the times of storms even green leaves does fall.
Thinking about life and death
If time is the greatest killer, how can we avoid him? Where can we hide? Where can we run to? I am sure it will find us if we hide even 100 feet underground bunker. It will happen to dictators, billionaires and Beggers. Temporarily we can forget this fact and get on with life. But when I see the news on TV yet again a Jeju Air, plane crashing onto a concrete wall and turn into a fireball with 180 people in it in Korea, I have to imagine. What am I doing today to understand life. What are you doing today? To understand life?
I refuse to accept any temporary solution given by the mind. Like Descartes does, I invite you to question everything. Even the question itself.
Ps: As the time of this writing, I noted another mass murder has happened in New Orleans US. Timing of this article is not good I think, yet as always for mindfulness, it is the golden hour for everyone who is living. Not forgetting to pray for the ones who are diseased.
The real problem is we see only part of the deaths which happens around us. Which comes to our consciousness by news. Yet if we look at the real numbers time takes out thousands of consciousness daily from a pool of billions (170463 is the exact number per day or 2 per second). It was apparent during covid. Even today. Why anyone is not worried about natural death, more than unnatural death? It makes no sense. This is not to make anyone anxious and Panic so you would even not board an airplane. It is just the opposite. To make everyone a seeker so we seek truths about life, and question until we find out it is nothing but truth. It is to invite everyone to conquer yourself like Socrates urged us to do some 2000 years ago.
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