Shock Treatments

The brother of Albert Nobel was dead. All newspapers by mistake had published The obituary of Albert Nobel. It went like ‘the merchant of deaths is dead.’ A great shock to him, who minted huge wealth By selling dynamites for the use in war. The shock changed him, who made over his wealth To a noble cause: The Nobel Prizes Kalinga War shocked Emperor Asoka When he saw the tears of the war victims. The shock changed him, who followed Buddhism, And took a vow to wage no war, no killings. The Cancer in me gave me a great shock, Which made me quit smoking of five decades. A shock can touch one’s subconscious mind And alter one’s attachment to a thing. 05.04.2014