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Listening to Bliss - Not Quite Paradise
Dear Friends,
It is very sobering a thought to know that when we experience a 1000 days of bliss. It all comes to nothing in a one single dark day. Seen from the darkess day, many things suddenly look irrelevant. Many things look ridiculous. Many things look unworthy of pursuit. Many things are useless and many things are not worth living for.
Strange how we gripe that our good days are never good enough, and toil and spend so much time trying to improve our good days, believing that they will go on forever. How much complaints, gripes and grouses indeed! And how sad to know that we are just living in the illusion of a long lasting stretch of bliss of days.
How odd it is when we seek days of pleasure, enjoyment. Days of trying to be in, stay in and continually be popular. Days of being chosy about relationships. Days about being superficial to those around you. Days of ego and pride and of malice childishness as well as deep seated feelings.
Days where we only toil for a better future. Not knowing if that there is going to be a future. Not knowing if things will change very suddenly, not knowing what will things come to if the big "what if" happens. We do keep pushing that probability towards to dark reaches of our subconsciousness don't we all? How ironic considering that we debate on fashion when half the world starves. How strange we complain that our bungalows are too small when there are homeless people within a a few hundred meters. How weird we complain about not having enough money to spend when some old people still earn a dollar a day for hard manual labour.
Have we all lost sense of who we are? And what we stand for? And why things are what things are? Why is the the only correct answer to the question of "how are you" always "fine" and no other? Have we decided to live our lives behind a mask? In school? At work? At church? Is everything in life all about self and no other? Is undeclared charitable work uncool? Truly we are the ones who should take pity on ourselves! Look at what we have all become!
"Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable , and poor, and blind, and naked. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. " Rev 3:17-18
Things are very bad, but I have made on conclusion in the midst of the current crisis:
"It is better to invest in good Christian character and principles and moral values than to invest in the things of the word"
In the words of my good friend, Tan Shing Lee, ACJC class of 2SG1 2002:
"Count Your Blessings"
For you never know when you have no more blessing for that particular area of your life.
Listening to Bliss - Not Quite Paradise
Dear Friends,
It is very sobering a thought to know that when we experience a 1000 days of bliss. It all comes to nothing in a one single dark day. Seen from the darkess day, many things suddenly look irrelevant. Many things look ridiculous. Many things look unworthy of pursuit. Many things are useless and many things are not worth living for.
Strange how we gripe that our good days are never good enough, and toil and spend so much time trying to improve our good days, believing that they will go on forever. How much complaints, gripes and grouses indeed! And how sad to know that we are just living in the illusion of a long lasting stretch of bliss of days.
How odd it is when we seek days of pleasure, enjoyment. Days of trying to be in, stay in and continually be popular. Days of being chosy about relationships. Days about being superficial to those around you. Days of ego and pride and of malice childishness as well as deep seated feelings.
Days where we only toil for a better future. Not knowing if that there is going to be a future. Not knowing if things will change very suddenly, not knowing what will things come to if the big "what if" happens. We do keep pushing that probability towards to dark reaches of our subconsciousness don't we all? How ironic considering that we debate on fashion when half the world starves. How strange we complain that our bungalows are too small when there are homeless people within a a few hundred meters. How weird we complain about not having enough money to spend when some old people still earn a dollar a day for hard manual labour.
Have we all lost sense of who we are? And what we stand for? And why things are what things are? Why is the the only correct answer to the question of "how are you" always "fine" and no other? Have we decided to live our lives behind a mask? In school? At work? At church? Is everything in life all about self and no other? Is undeclared charitable work uncool? Truly we are the ones who should take pity on ourselves! Look at what we have all become!
"Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable , and poor, and blind, and naked. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. " Rev 3:17-18
Things are very bad, but I have made on conclusion in the midst of the current crisis:
"It is better to invest in good Christian character and principles and moral values than to invest in the things of the word"
In the words of my good friend, Tan Shing Lee, ACJC class of 2SG1 2002:
"Count Your Blessings"
For you never know when you have no more blessing for that particular area of your life.
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