The Bell

We passed by a church each day, on our way to work - me and a friend. At exactly 9:00 AM the church bell would start ringing, "DING", "DING","Ding"......."ding".....! Many times we did not notice it and just passed by, sometimes talking to each other, sometimes quietly. One morning, we were passing by the church and the bells started to ring as usual. My friend asked me - "do you know what the bells mean?". I did not know, so I tried to guess. "Time to pray", "To remind people that God exists", "For people to communicate with God" - I made some mundane guesses. "The bells are meant to remind people that life is not permanent and that one day it would end, just like the fading sound of the bell", my friend remarked. He said, he had read it in an article somewhere. I went quiet for a while, thinking about what he had said. It seemed so true...I don't know if it really is, but it seemed so true! I also wondered, how something as simple as a bell, could explain the meaning of life and death, with such gravity!