WHY DO 'BAD PEOPLE' LIVE LONGER?
I saw this FB message, this morning: “Good news: People are living longer. Bad news: You can’t pick up which ones!” Eashaan, a dear student of mine, had sent it to me. “O boy!” I clicked on the ‘Like’ without even a second thought, “How did you read my mind?” That means, I am not happy at all to watch ‘bad people’ now living longer… It is a ‘bad news’ to me…! Is that not so? Have I been asking in my mind, all in frustration and bitterness: “Why does God allow the ‘bad people’ – my tormentors – to live long? Yes, why don’t all the nasty, cruel, harmful and destructive people in my life – in this world – die early? I do not know if Eashaan is as ‘serious’ as I am… I hope, he is… For, all down the ages, the idea of ‘Good people’ and ‘Bad people’ had been a matter of our perception. The one who is ‘bad’ in my eyes is ‘good’ in his own… and, if there are a thousand people vouching for me, there are thousand doing the s...