The more I think about the massacre which happened at Virginia Tech University yesterday the more my heart aches. 32 innocent lives laid to rest by 1 madman. I have been tracking the story of Minal Panchal ever since the news broke out of she being missing. I searched through orkut and landed on her profile. There were about 350 messages in her scrapbook then and a message from her friend was " nice pic re, yeh kal ki hi hai kya ?". That seems to suggest she had clicked pictures a day before the fatal day.
I feel so sorry for the poor girl, she deserved a better life. What sin did the poor girl commit. Itz tragic that for me and for many others like me Minal Panchal became alive only after her death.
I am sure there will be debates about gun control, security at US university campuses and other measures required so that such incidents dont happen again but then in a few days something else will happen and we will completely forget about Minal.
The only lesson I can think of after this tragedy is that we need to value life a lot more, cherish each and every minute.Live life to the fullest coz nobody knowns when and how it may just end.
Ironically, a couple of days back my friend Bawa messaged me, "Value the people who have touched ur life because u'll never know when they'll walk out of ur life and never come back again..."
Alas, nobody will ever login again in Minal's orkut account and her account will become a silent reminder of her for all the people who came to know her after she was no more with us.
May her soul rest in peace and God give strength to her family and friends.
Regards,
Ajj Kaim
4 comments:
Really a heart touchin article PSV bhaji. And there should be gun control in the Campus otherwise such incidents will occur again and again. May her soul rest in piece.
Bawa
its very sad ...but the sadder part is that it takes a tragedy like this to bring us all together and think beyond the materialism of the world...after paru mentioned it to me i checked her orkut profile and was deeply touched by reading it even though i have never met her and got to know that she existed only after she died.Strange is this world.Orkut started as a place where frnds met and chatted about their mundane life and read each others scrap to spice up the same.And alas! orkut was the very reason that made it possible for us to actually know who minal was ,who were her frnds,wat communities she had joined......it seems life is mocking at you ...the whole world seems like a big joke...we have to move on but lets not FORGET!
neha kachroo
Sad yet a fact to live with, there are mad people in this world.
May god bless the departed souls!
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