NEE - Near Early Experience / Near Exit Experience
NEE - Near Early Experience / Near Exit Experience ... Let Us Share To Better Appreciate Life.
MY EXPERIENCES
· The Earliest Years Of My Life ... I must have been age 4 or 5. Two momentous events took place: Independence and, shortly afterwards, Death of a National Leader. Both of these I don’t remember while those of my older kin recall both. I remember recognising and rejoicing life with my ever caring father, loving mother, two younger brothers, one ever cheerful the other cute and the family favourite and the arrival of an active cousin. I can recall vividly the memories of Life from around age 6, especially seeing the First Republic Day Illumination of Gateway of India, Churchgate Railway Station, from the vantage position of the shoulders of my uncles who lifted us nephews to share the wonder and to save us from the mass of people milling around, being similarly excited by the occasion.
· I also recall my travel by train to my native place, sharing the journey by steam engine trains, the thrill of “pushing” the window frames to “move” stationary trains and wondering at the moon and sun chasing us and being seen wherever we went, studying for a brief while in local street / home platform school ...
· I was very sick, near “fatal” before 3, and cured by a kind doctor, I was told later ... But, I don’t remember this. My aunts would say I was normal, cheerful and looking wide-eyed at the world, my “large eyes” catching those seeing me ... But, I don’t remember this, too. So, my real life as recorded by me, may be from age 5 or 6.
· Then, at my native place, I fell into a swift rivulet, while trying to negotiate my return from the market ... I gulped water ... Some kind bather nearby pulled me out ... I was saved. Scared, but spared of “exit”.
· Much later, while at School ... During excursion to a multi-purpose project, the “Modern Temple” of the country, I got sucked into the quicksand / quagmire near the river ... Again, I was pulled out by fellow schoolmates or elders. Again scared, but spared of “exit”.
· Many years later, while going to work, the contract bus in which I was being ferried, swerved off the road and fell into the ditch by the side. One casualty (the bus cleaner driving succumbed later) and others injured ... up to the row in front of me ... For the third time, I got scared, but spared of “exit”.
· A Boss of mine had this “Near Exit Experience” ... He was visiting a famous pilgrimage in the west of the country ... He went swimming in a canal, the swirling waters pulled him through to “locks” ... Someone pulled him out ... But he could see “every bit of his past life ... right from his mother holding “months old baby” (him) in her lap ... I understand this is the experience of “exit” ... My Boss survived to lead a dynamic career in life!
Let Us Share Our “NEE" - "Near Early Experience / Near Exit Experience" ... To Better Appreciate Life!






