drinks for thought #1

had a conversation with a friend.

her comment; scare of aging, because got a lot of things to do, and have not experience.

well...my question is, do we really need to experience all things in life?

it's good to experience as many things as we could, to do the things that we want, and die without regrets. however, there are too many things to do, that sometimes it's not enough for one life time to experience everything. and sometimes we are too engross with things, that we forget where we came from, because chasing external tangible outcomes. so what if we have done everything there is to do? to tell a great tale? hmm...

what if one life time is not enough?

i didn't know we could continue to serve God after we 'check-in'. Buddhist belief there's karma and afterlife; second chance. not so for other religions. that was an eye opener. thank you. i'm not saying who is right or wrong. after all, we choose what we want to believe.

i'm not a big fan of God. nonetheless, i do believe there's a higher being above us all. and things do happen for a reason. every damn thing. you could term it as cause and effect. some may not agree, they would say it is God's will. i may want to disagree on it a lil. hear me out for a sec?

IF is God's will... would God wanna put you in pain? maybe/maybe not. but if you think intellectually for a moment; nothing will happen if you don't drop a penny into the pond. ripples won't cause sand to move at the end of the pond. it's actually the results of what we previously thought of that causes the joy, pain and whateva experience we are/were going thru. some might just ask, 'but where got ppl wanna suffer pain?'. have you wonder why do you enjoy pleasure then. we live in the world of duality. yes and no, good and bad, positive and negative, pain and pleasure. hence, if we could enjoy, we could pretty much suffer as well. make sense? 'but this is not fair...' now your blamming God for being unfair? such irony... but it's the truth.

coming back to the question, 'why do people wana suffer pain?' there's a saying, people grow when they go through pain, i think it's just as much is true when we enjoy pleasure. the only difference, pain causes us to dig deep into our souls and minds (conscious and unconscious) to search for answers. how many of us when we are in deep shit, or has a favor to ask, we always pray hard? how many of us would pray for our love ones to be safe, or wish them well? almost all of us. funny thing is, we never pray to get more hardship, make our life miserable, and full of shit, so that we can grow. interesting huh...

very few of us probably will say a prayer saying; if this is what i need to go through, so be it, i'll just embrace it. (it's easier said than done, really).

coming back again... if u notice, when things don't go our way, we tend to get irritated, blaming the whole world that things is not working in our favor (it all happen to many of us). point is, when we say 'why is all this bad stuff happening to me?' guess what, you'll be on a roll of experiencing a series of bad stuff. don't believe? try it.. and let me know, alrite? =)

as they say... there's always 2 sides of a coin. look at the brighter side. these philosophies has been pass down generations after generations. it's always a choice how we look at things, and how we handle it from there. something interesting i found out, we humans like to sulk and take in the moment of despair and pain. is as if it's our comfort zone. and now you're wondering why chose to suffer in pain instead of enjoying the moment /incident that happened to me.

wrapping up, i mentioned that i'm not a big fan of 'His Honor'. why? i'm not sure though, maybe it's not the time yet, or God is too big of a word for me to understand and digest. too big that it'll take me no time and space could be measure to absorb all of His teachings.



p/s: this post is purely my opinion, and it has no intention of offending any parties that might feel offended.