60 minutes

You know how you will feel, if you are tied by a string underwater 50 meters. You have an oxygen mask which is just about going to last for 60 minutes. Those 60 minutes are going to be the most miserable minutes of your life. Most importantly you will be filled with the dread of dying. And whatever space the dread leaves, regret will fill the remaining. Of not having done things which you always wanted to or should have. Its magical, how you always get clarity in your thinking right in the middle of a calamity. But never mind, let’s not complain, as don’t forget you are still under water dreading the last 60 minutes of your life. You want to live more. You don’t want to perish. And what is that you live for? A current generation answer would be money, fame, happiness, love. Some may want to live for honor. But whatever is it that ticks you that is something you are bound to miss the most. Dread it. You have 60 minutes.

In the first few minutes you will end up using a lot of oxygen. You will use all might and no brains to set yourself free. Then, buried under the emotional and physical weight of the calamity and the oxygen mask, you will begin to grow weary and tired. You will give up your struggle to set yourself free. You will resign to God. Memories will rush to you in a flood faster than water. Good, Bad. Both. You may smile occasionally. You will check the time on the clock. You will be alarmed to see that only 5 minutes are remaining. Where did the time go? Didn't you have half an hour more? In vain you will struggle again to set yourself free. You will end up using more oxygen in the process. All of a sudden you feel there is no oxygen coming. But you are afraid to remove your mask as you fear the water will enter your body. Your body starts sending signals to your brain to breathe. But your brain has stopped functioning as there is oxygen for it. Your reflexes take command of the military like situation created around you. Automatically you throw your oxygen mask as it’s now causing you lot of suffocation.

Your body greets the water with the hope of meeting heaven in the form of oxygen. You take deep breaths thus drinking in large sum of waters through your nose. Something feels wrong. So you open your mouth as well in the hope of getting oxygen. Water never gave you any oxyge!. But due to the lack of oxygen, your brain is already dead to figure this out. Slowly all the air cavities in your body get filled and consumed with water... and then you rise above!