HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT LIFE LATELY?

Drinking coffee, staring at the sunrise, and reading the newspaper every time I wake up in the morning drags me to explore deeper about the little and the heavy things about what's happening in the cosmic life these days, where confusions and questions float inside my head like nobody gives a damn of what is left behind the broken past and what is about to be healed today and tomorrow.

You see a mother walking in the street with nine kids, you see a battalion of soldiers passing by with their ammunition in heavy battle gear, you hear gun shots from gangsters pulling their triggers killing the other tribes and busting cops, you see a bunch of narcotic addicts sniffing substances stuck in a rehabilitation center instead of going to school, you see women along dark corners selling their flesh just to get rid of the chain of poverty, you see families begging medicines and a sack of rice, you hear a sick father raping his 10 - year old daughter, you hear politicians with their sentimental speeches and platform amassing great power after buying the votes of the people with a huge smile at the end of the day, and you listen to a soldier's story filling the cups of war without a cause.

You go to a party driving your Ferrari carrying huge cash, meeting a hot chick, getting drunk, sniffing crack cocaine enjoying the coolest trend of the 21st century, while terrible scenarios of life are getting worst. Obviously, you don't recognize those scenarios because of your fancy lifestyle, though you are aware about it, but extremely you are not conscious about it.

Getting a grip of these stuff, makes me wonder if some one out there is thinking exactly what I'm thinking, not necessarily to be concerned about it, but to examine closely the outcome of a particular lifestyle with its effect behind the scenes of the horrible facts of life. Media has a great role with messing around our lifestyles blinded by its phony influence. "Who cares if a 10- year old girl gets raped and killed by her own sick dad?" a worldly man drowned by his worldly desires definitely does not care about this horrible animalistic act.

Is life all about party stuff? Is life all about getting high? Is life all about having huge fresh cash? Is life all about wearing expensive fashionable clothes? Is life all about having an expensive dazzling Ferrari? Is life all about sex? Can any one give me a break about this fancy perception that really doesn't make sense in the ultimate cosmic life?

Dr. Ron Jenson with his book "Make a Life not just a Living" really inspires me to have a deep sense of motivation and perspective through out the whole aspects of life. What really inspires me in that book is that he featured a thought about life from one of the authors that also inspired him, Harold Kushner saying, "Life is not about amassing wealth, reading great books, or having great power. It is about savoring the beauty of the moments that don't last, like the sunsets, the leaves turning color, and the rare true communication". This is what life is all about. Thinking about the small things that don't last and being sensitive to the things around you... Have you ever thought about life lately?