What is the description of our lifespan?? According to Gurbani, it can be summed up in one breath. The breath we take, if it remains inside and does not come out, that’s it. Everything is over…or to put it simply, the heartbeat if it doesn’t beat, the whole body stops, no matter how healthy other organs are. We have no idea of how much time we have, our duration etc, when we are supposed to exit from this life, in short, our life is so uncertain and yet we take things for granted daily.
Our happiness is postponed for some other day when we will be successful, our peace of mind is probably only for our old age, when we have nothing to do. Nothing is promised to us, with death being the only certainty. It doesn’t mean we have to leave everything to start looking for our end or live life as if there is a sword hanging over our heads. Instead, learn to enjoy and live every moment as there is no tomorrow promised to us and we have to make the best of each day.
With every breath, make each moment count, after all, in the end we are merely beings of a single breath. We are beings of one mere breath who have to idea about the time and extent of our lives on this earth.