{"id":2376,"date":"2022-11-05T17:49:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T17:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cogentmotivation.com\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2022-11-05T18:04:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T18:04:26","slug":"shedding-untimely-death-a-suite-of-the-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cogentmotivation.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/05\/shedding-untimely-death-a-suite-of-the-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"Shedding untimely death: A Suite of the Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Deaths are termed almost always untimely. If a person dies in their teens or up to their early 30s, the possibilities and the unfulfilled dreams make a case for the \u2018untimely\u2019 nature of death. On the other hand, a death in the 60s can be termed as \u201cthey couldn\u2019t enjoy the retired life\u201d or a death in the 40s \u2013 \u201cterrible: middle of nowhere\u201d \u2013 aka untimely. The passing away of anyone before the expected fulfilment of potential is indeed unfortunate. Depending on the part of the world you are reading this from, a funeral ceremony is performed and is concluded with the close ones reciting Rest In Peace (RIP). Intended for the soul of the dead but in many ways for the ones that are alive, to accept the inauspicious occasion and to move on in the longer run.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Can this concept be extended beyond a person\u2019s death? Does untimely death happen for more things? What does it have to do with strength? What could \u2018shedding an untimely death\u2019 mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before we get to that, let\u2019s look at the event where a snake sheds its dead skin. Almost all the animals discard the dead skin including us, it’s just that the snakes do it in a more visibly comprehensive manner. And we love visibly unique phenomena, don\u2019t we? Snakes shed their old or dead-skin because they grow but their skin doesn\u2019t; almost like we humans growing out of our clothes until our adulthood. It also helps them cast away harmful parasites and bacteria on the skin, which can in some cases lead to loss of body parts or blood flow. To sum it up, snakes HAVE TO shed the old skin \u2013 \u2018untimely\u2019 grown dangerous for their own existence.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Coming back to the human world, of course, mourning over a death takes time. Shedding behind the grief of death isn\u2019t easy and that\u2019s why getting over it is a Suite of the strong. But we aren\u2019t talking only about the untimely death of a person or our dead skin either. Can there be a case of death of friendships, relationships, neighbourhoods, situations and skills? Probably. And what\u2019s more peculiar about these is that they are almost all untimely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only because they happen suddenly and unexpectedly but also when they do, they lay deceivingly low, underneath our scope of realization. To emphasize it, the death of a close one in a car accident is sudden and unexpected but the time of death is a certain fact that can\u2019t be hidden. But it isn\u2019t that evident in other cases.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Let\u2019s take an example of a typewriter. From the 1880s to the 1980s the use of typewriters increased exponentially. In the span between the 1980s to 1990s, a typewriter was an indispensable part of any office environment. The skills of typing the fastest, with minimum mistakes, and knowing in and out about typewriters were in full demand. People spent several hours every week to get better in these and rightfully so; many made their entire careers as typists.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Post-1990s, deceivingly gradually, computers started replacing typewriters and those that kept practising the \u2018typist conducive\u2019 skills kept losing out. No one could say that the death of the typewriter and these skills had happened on 25th October 1989 (just a random date) but it had at some point. Those that couldn\u2019t get over it kept striving to revive a dead entity. Some realized it several years later, and some never did. The longer it took, the deeper they were cut.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Isn\u2019t it so with friendship? Or a relationship? The once thriving relationship on one fine day feels like a one-sided drag. Of course, it is not a mathematical equation to have it split 50-50 always, but then neither does the law of averages lie. You realize the pattern of you trying to maintain contact, keep conversations going and crumble under the weight of cold shoulders for all your enthusiastic plans. Man, O Man, the weight of cold shoulders is one of the heaviest recorded on this planet!<\/p>\n\n\n

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But even here, for the patterns to emerge and to calculate the averages, the cradle of disappointment has to be rocked multiple times to realize the untimely death of that relation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now it\u2019s a novel idea to review what went wrong, to avoid repeating the same in future but it can\u2019t be the first step. The first step, as the simple-minded and cold-blooded snakes take, is to discard the dead skin. Unlike us, they don\u2019t waste a second questioning \u201cwhy it didn\u2019t work out\u201d or \u201clet me continue dragging the skin along \u2013 maybe it will return to life\u2026\u201d They simply focus on discarding what is dead. For them the choice is clear, leave the skin or die along with it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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But think about it in our case, don\u2019t we also die every moment we strive to revive something that\u2019s no longer alive? What\u2019s the point in polishing the skills that have no means of livelihood? – (unless it\u2019s your hobby)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As \u2018untimely\u2019, as unfortunate it may seem \u2013 shedding away the untimely death of the skills, relations and situations alike is the first cogent step. Certainly, one can follow up with introspection and a detailed case study to learn from the losses but only after the dead entity is completely registered in your mental records. That\u2019s how the greatest sportsmen, the generals on the battlefield completely empty their memory cache about the events till the minute before the present and with zero emotions take the next logical step. Difficult to master but that is the epitome of strength.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Are you carrying the load of the dead relations? Can you spot them, to begin with? Are you sure you are not pursuing dead skills? But the most important question is, can you nonchalantly scoot over any sort of death, no matter how untimely it is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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