IN THE FACE OF THIS CATASTROPHE

If you have not seen 2012, bet you should run to the movies or a video store. It is not the regular kissing and necking, or the shooting and bombing kind of movie, it is a script that will certainly question the reason for the existence of human race, it is a piece that will ask you so many deep questions on your choices, the reason for making them, your priority, the possibility of a second chance, the idea of survival and the list is endless.
Life is a plate of delicacy that whets the appetite, but all it does afterwards is run the stomach. The very things we created with our own hands in turn destroy us; no stone remains on the other, all turn to ashes, the earth opens up its mouth and swallows them up.
Then I asked myself, what is the main reason for our existence? God created us for his pleasure, so does he get sheer pleasure in seeing us die after working so hard to please him or to please ourselves?
I have so great a dream, to be the greatest consultant you will find around, I have been studying real hard, combining professions, reading wide, enriching my mind just to achieve this feat, and the last thing on my mind is the sudden end of this seeming perfect revealing picture.
As a bible student, I am not ignorant of the abrupt possibility of a rapture, but it looks like we only talk about it but never expect it to be on its way pretty soon, no, not even during my short life span on this planet.
Should the earth go down, the core burst open, or the sea flush the mighty towers, should the sun vomit its venom or utter darkness fill our earth, what will become of my pursuit of happiness, the grades, the degrees, the hard work, the dreams, the promising future, the great vision? All would come to a sudden end; they would be drowned in the ocean of vanity.
The question of love also strikes a cord. The grudges we keep, the hatred we harbour, the envy and the strife, what happens when we never have the time to make up? The only time you might have to do that is now, it makes no sense after all, that you keep those ill feelings against your folk; you may regret you never got a second chance to say I am sorry. Then what happens in hell or heaven when you meet again? Sure that will debar you from entering that rest, and you will be mad at yourself that of all sins that can damn one to hell, malice got a hold on you. You will be too busy nursing your pain, and your sorry will be the most useless.
What about the thought of loving someone? Have you ever felt this thing for someone that you never shared? Do you truly love him but your pride and ego wouldn’t just allow? Are you blinded by his wealth or her coyness that you forget the real thing? What if you never get the second chance to say I love you? What if grave catastrophe hit the earth and all you can save is nothing? Would you die fulfilled because you have let out all your emotions and nothing remains in that dying soul to be unravelled?
Could you have loved that person any better? Would you be a better friend if given a second chance? What things would you change if the end is now? What would you have loved to do if death would come this minute? Maybe all you need to do is to go back to the drawing board and set some things straight.
In the face of sorrow, tears and blood, God still has a way of preserving his chosen ones. Then I wonder, why must we cry when we lose a loved one since we will all suffer the same fate? Wealth in its power will refuse to be traded for pains and tears, it seems like all we live for is just to wait for that grieving time to waste our tears and bite our lips, and afterwards, we switch roles.
So what value has your life if you live it all for you? What respect is in selfishness and the famous doctrine of “me, myself and I”? Of what use is coming to earth at all if you will never leave it a better place even in the face of its continued ugliness and degrading value? What use is mere existence without an impact? Of what value is life without a legacy? What use is life without loving? What sense is in keeping all the knowledge and wealth and dying in shame with everything decaying in the grave?
“If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done” ,” since a dull axe requires great strength, sharpen the blade. That’s the value of wisdom; it helps you to succeed.” “Because the teacher was wise, he taught the people everything he knew….”