Saturday 18 August 2012

Fear and Hope....keeps us going and balances life

Some excerpts of a poem from the Scottish Himalayan goes thus;
Until one is committed there is hesitancy,                                                                         the chance to draw back,                                                                                                                    always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of creation & initiative,                               there is one elementary truth,                                                                                             the ignorance of which kills countless ideas & splendid plans:                                        that the moment one definitely commits oneself,                                                             then providence moves too.                                                                                               All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred........
Before I came across the above piece, I was down but not yet out though. I really wished there was a genuine option to hit the delete button in life's race other than suicide. Of course I say this as a result of the religious background I come from i.e Christian. If I was an atheist, my ideology would have been different.
In life, we are dealt with a certain hand of cards and life happens to be a series of motion picture which has already been written and acted out and we humans are mere spectators.
However most times, we do not want to believe such a reality. We are constantly in fear of the unknown and also hoping for the best to come when actually we have little or no power to effect any change. The good thing is, fear and hope is actually what strikes a balance in life and keeps us going.
All that life has to offer will come and pass so, we should hold nothing dear but enjoy the ride while it lasts and however we see it.
Take time to have a peace and quiet time each day in order to make sense out of life. Distinguish what you need from what you want and you would realize that 99% of the time, it has always been about what we want because what we need has already been provided.
No matter how long we live,we would be dead more longer. Use money or wealth to offset those basic need, help one another and peace will reign which reduces fear and increases hope for a better world to come.
That's the balance of life.

 

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