No one can escape his death and this little story by John O’Hara will serve as the best example:
A man goes to the market to buy fruits, when he sees his own Death walking among the people.
Desperate, he runs back and asks his employer to exempt him that day, as he had seen his Death from close.
His boss lets him go to his village, but starts thinking that all that might have been a lie. He goes to the market and really sees his employee’s Death, sitting in a bank.
He complains: ‘But what are you doing here? My servant was surprised to see you and because of that I had to dismiss him from work!” ‘I was surprised to see him here as well,’ Death answers.
‘I have a date with him at five o’clock, at his village, and as it seems, he will escape me!’
The employer thinks of calling his worker back, but it is already late. Destiny will be fulfilled as it had been written, especially because the man was afraid of Death and decided to run away.
