Friday, March 17, 2006
The first blog in a long time, and what do I talk about? Love.
Christian Publication Our Daily Bread says this about Love.
"Sometimes love sure hurts!" The mother and father were expressing the difficulties and heartaches of guiding their children through their teen years. "Maybe if we didn't love them quite so much it wouldn't be so hard," the man added.
Even though love brings pain and sorrow, what would life be without it? In his book The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis wrote:
"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully around with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness... The only place outside heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers of love... is hell."
To love is to take risks, to expose our hearts. Sometimes it hurts! it hurt Jesus Christ, but He kept on loving - even at the cost of His life. And He asked us to 'love one another as I have loved you." (John 15:12)
Truly loving that spouse, that teenager, that neighbour, that colleague is Christlike, and it's better than locking your heart in the coffin of self-centeredness.
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Well, before this post is dismissed as overzealous evangelistic preaching, I'd like to add that currently the numbness in me's made me feel exactly the
opposite to what the article said I shoUld do. Whats more, that issue of Our Daily Bread was given to me by kristy. Ah, the sheer irony of it all.
But lets lighten the mood!
The last time I blogged was last year (whoa!), and currently im straddling Year 1 and Year 2 of my polytechnic studies, smack in the middle of holidays with not so much as a teeny assignment to bring a dark cloud over my blissful slackdom. =)
Lets see, so far ive..
1. Read a lot.
2. Resumed slow construction on my 1/350 scale IJN Yamato, a monster of a WWII warship..
3. Hung out with friends.
4. Slept beyond 10am everyday. (Virtually unimaginable during school days)
5. Turned down calls to join this year's POS (dun wanna watch my hols disappear), an annual cheeerleading event by City Harvest. Last year's one was described extensively in my June archives =)
6. Played CS: Source heh. Ol Skool man.
7. Contemplated an assortment of life's questions.
(The following paragraph was written without much thought and should be read with viewer discretion)
Oh yea, that last one about contemplation. Haha. Weird thing that is. Ever felt melancholic one day and just wanted to spend it thinking and hopefully come to some great conclusion to life's great questions? Yea well, most do. But sometimes its so hard to find any answer, like with any other theory, its only a theory, and correct until proved wrong, which often happens very fast. The key to a happy life is balance, and there's no tightrope thinner than life. How do we define success? I concur with the Bible's sacred words that 'Without vision, men perish'. Well, imagine having no purpose in life at all. No exam to study for, no ball game to beat, no TV show to catch, no hobby, no friends to care for, no one, nothing. You'd freaking die. Yet Life is just that, an endless chase of goals that give immense saticfaction when achieved, even though it is obvious that any satisfaction at all, is temporary. People move on. Times change. If you are successful at doing something, you cant survive on doing that same something for life; people can copy you, come up with something better, force you to imnprove yourself to 'stay in the game', an endless rat race.
So, some many centuries ago, some wise people recognised this universal law, and decided to give up on life altogether, shave their heads and become monks living in a secluded monastery, free of any of life's desires, until the day they lose their life itself. Heck, even my successful-architect lecturer wants to become a monk.
Well, life's not all about doing nothing. We must spend it DOING SOMETHING, not slacking or sleeping the whole day. Sooner or later what you have will be gone, all the people you know would have moved on. If you don't keep your neck above the water, sooner or later life's gonna come and dunk you BAD. =/
Peace.
"People want what they can't have, and when they get it, they won't treasure it, their minds wondering whether their life would be better without it.."
-Me
jOhn thought at 10:18 AM