Being from a country where the average man has the life expectancy of 53 years, I guess it's no joke when we say death is ever near.
So seeing this Weekend Prompt by @galenkp really interested me
Imagine you had the power to see people's future - not your own - but only the exact moment they would die and how, would you tell people? What possible ramifications do you think there would be either way. Respond in a post of 300+ words - use images you took yourself if possible.
If I had the power to see another's death?
I guess life would be a lot more interesting and maybe scary.
You'll have the choice to inform one of their death, maybe make a business out of it (cause that's how crazy the times we are in are) or you can be quiet, watching as sould upon souls pass and act none the wiser.
Either choice would bring a lot of consequences to either you or the victim
Although this quote is talking about ninjas, I still feel that the same can be said about regular humans.
- What if I tell a person how he dies and it affects how he lives, wouldn't that affect his destiny?
- Or is my interference in his way/time of death thus changing his lifestyle still a part of his destiny?
These are questions that I'm sure I would ask myself before I make the choice of walking to a random stranger and tell him he would die tomorrow in an accident.
I wouldn't want to be the reason why for all his life, someone would be afraid of cars or any other way to die.
For when one lives his life in fear well one isn't actually living.
Although there is the peace that may come if said person is able to settle things in the world before he's taken away.
If I'm able to help him go in peace knowing he has fulfilled what he could then maybe I would spill the beans on his death day.
Although I feel there may be some who would be thrilled to learn of when they would die, crazy as it may seem.
In the case that I do agree to tell people of their death, there are some folk who may find me out asking, begging, willing to pay for the information.
I would tell those ones for that's what they want.
Those who lack the fear of death and are willing to face it head on, those that being told their place and time would indeed head to that place to have a fight with destiny, knowing that indeed they may die yet ready to bank on the chance of what if they don't for indeed nothing is certain even a weird power of death telling.
I think the one who would suffer the most from this power is me though, having the choice to look at anyone and knowing how he would die, weather peacefully or painfully.
I'm the least unsafe, the mental wear of looking at loved ones and knowing a person won't be with you in the next 3 years, just randomly walking the street and it just clicking in your brain that your fellow passerby wouldn't wake up after tonight.
The fact that you can't save someone without being dubbed mad, shunned or even laughed and or insulted.
How would I even approach a person?
Excuse me sir, please stay away from your workplace tomorrow by 5pm.
It would catch on fire then and if your in it, you'll die.
Now that's plenty type of crazy, innit?
So on the question of if I'll tell someone about their deaths?
I say I'll tell them if they ask.
If I'm given the chance to save a soul, I'll easily take it.
Although I wouldn't force the predictions on anyone ʘ‿ʘ
