Insuring The SELF!!!

We always insure our cars, our homes and our health by taking up policies and paying regular premiums.
But when we come across an accident that stirs, shakes and hurts us deeper than that what do we have to fall back upon?
Yesterday a very dear friend met me completely shaken by the loss of a young nephew and even pained by the trauma that the parents must be undergoing. The child had succumed to a viral suddenly turning into a fatal pneumonia, while the father was out of station travelling for work. Even though I tried to console her i found myself a bit jittery. The situation doesn`t seem very alien, except for the final disaster. We all gurgaonites have gotten used to our kids coming back home with sudden virals, breathless, needing emergency nebulisations and ofcourse fathers travel half the week. It just dawned on me, IT COULD BE ANYONE OF US. Life can hit us anytime any where. There is no bigger fear in life than for your kids who define your whole meaning to be, your physical mental and spiritual existence.
We tell our kids that people go to god`s home when they die and that we should try to be good , do good, that there is god, the supreme soul who is watching over us, but do we really believe in it. As grown ups we have accumulated skills, wealth, gadgets, friends to last us perhaps more than one lifetime but we never empowered ourselves for the most unexpected, devastating yet inevitable event, we never stopped and even tried to develop deeper untill we were really faced and had to forcibly deal with it.
Just like the gym and work it is also crucial for us to to visit our inner self more often, to exist and understand life at more deeper levels. It is not that will come in one day, just like the regular premiums we need to pay we need to fill our cups also regularly, in installments much much before something hits us in our faces. After all aren`t we all a terribly shaken and insecure lot, sanitising our hands every time we hear the word FLU. We need to sanitise ourselves from within, so that we build a wealth of true awareness and strength. Which just like the insurance policies, if not used in accidents, is left for you as a big chunk of unexpected wealth that could be used further by the generations to come, This is the only treasure that grows with use, is infectious, can be shared and will last much much more than a lifetime.