How will you react when you are threatened? What does your instinct tell you when you feel that your life is in danger? To stage a fight or plan a flight? Everyone has a different body mechanism which handle crisis in a different way.
Some remain composed despite of all the hiccups around. Some suffer from nervous breakdown at the slightest hint of pandemonium. There are a panoply of emotions and rationalities boiling in the brain. While emotion can make us courageous and undeterred in time of crisis , rationalities tell us that life is put at stake. There is no point dicing with death. Running , escaping and seeking help may not be an act of cowardice , as our body is made in a way that put survival as the top priority. That will be better than staging a one-man-show while being slashed to pieces.
We never know who our foes are. People with genteel mannerism can easily be brought to negotiation , but alas , those with barbaric attitude can hardly speak a word of logic or fairness. In times of crisis when emotions are unstable , adrenaline is rushing through the veins , panic , angst , and anger strike from all directions , disagreements can lead to commotions , argy-bargy and in worst situations bloodshed. Nothing is safe and a heroic deed can just be the door into the graveyard. Life is priceless yet so vulnerable.
Crisis though undesired is the time to reflect true human behaviors. There is no mask to put on , no show to stage and everything is stripped off to bare the inner most personality. Line can be drawn between friends and foes , true love can be portrayed by the loved ones and personal characters can be unveiled in just split seconds. Maternal and paternal instinct to protect the child will stay forever. Parents are willing to do anything just to keep the child safe , to take full responsibilities , to foot the bills of all damages incurred , and to apologise for things they did not do. It is a natural behavior so pure , so true and so untouched after so many years kept away as the child grow up. No matter how much we yearn to stay independent , look mature and seek adulthood , when we are plagued by problems , crisis , threat , the only refuge we seek and rely will be our home ,our family.
What a reflection after a car accident...
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