A few seconds of madness?

Well, umm...what can one say? few seconds, few words, one single action.... how important can these be? well very..... and there's lots of evidence to justify this. a single action.... few seconds of madness can prove to be a nations undoing.....

Sample this..... right from the early ages..... a few seconds of madness led to major events that changed the face of this world. Madness for love with Paris abducting Helen and voila....Troy burnt! Madness invited Babur to India to resolve a simple dispute and what followed was centuries of foreign rule! Madness to sink an American vessel....madness to attack Pearl Harbour... and down went Hiroshima and Nagasaki ! well any doubt left?

Even more recently....take the football world cup for instance.... an idiotic lunge by Carlos Puyol leading to the big upset? France beating Spain? Just a twitch of the nerve, a surge of adrenaline and it was bye bye Rooney, dashing England's dreams! A few seconds of madness?

Isildur turning back from Mount Doom... a small prank and a single wrong decision in school leading to 14 years of isolation and revenge later (Oldboy/Zinda...take your pick)..... quite similar the situations arent they?? Few seconds of madness. Obviously considering movies do in fact reflect on real life.... or is it really the other way round?

Forces you to think...does'nt it? Is it just Destiny? Is it just the way it is penned down by Him? Are these the twists, the climaxes (if indeed that is the plural) in the great storyline of life itself? If so...who wrote this? whose movie are we all acting in? whose book? whose dream? whose reality? whose mind? Who indeed is Him?

There just might be someone out there don't you think? Zoom out world! Let me see Men in Black end ..... :)