Life & Time.

I am 66 years old. I used to hear from elders quoting scriptures that only body decays, not soul.
It was then very difficult to realize its true significance. Now it continuously haunts me that verdict. My soul or inner-self, whatever you call it, is just as it was in my early ears. There is no change it it at all.
Some time it occurs in my mind that if I don't look my myself in a mirror, I forget my growing age. Physical incapability reminds me about my old age. Body decays very subtly with the time, which is not realized day to day's life. We feel a sense of growing our vigour up to thirty years of age, but according to my experience becomes slow after that. On many occasion automatically comes out from our tongue that now I am growing old. Such feeling increases day by day. Impact of time clearly is seen on our physical form. Thus seeing our physical incapability we start prepariing ourselves for our end. It is true that life is not real & certain, but death is certain. It is very difficult to prepare our mind for death, which can come any time. Mind say that it is very unfair in the eyes of Supreme Power to live to death. All the more living life ignoring this ultimate truth is also unwise. I think that we should try to live without expecting fruits of our doings, as it is said in Geeta. Only God will tell the hard reality of a human life, if we constantly pray Him to make me to understand this reality.
Shailbala Misra.