In
some ways, however small and secret, each of us wants a little room to
breathe, to get out of life's weariness. Everyone of us is lonely at
bottom, and still we cry to be understood. But we cannot entirely
understand someone else, and each of us remains part stranger even to
those who love us. No matter how we withdraw ourselves to the people
who we thought would never appreciate us, we still yearn to be with
them. We can never entirely separate our fiber with society's, it will
always belong to where it belongs at some point. Let me reiterate an
adage: "no man is an island". We don't want to be alone for the
entireity of our lives. We can't smile, cry, sing and rejoice alone. We
need the people, who may not fully understand us, but somehow will give
us the idea that we won't grow behind walls. Trees don't grow without
sunlight, neither will we, without the companionship of people close to
us, or the people who we allow to etch an influence in our lifes. Quote
and quote Aristotle, man is a social being. For almost 2000 years after
he said that, man still remains a social being, yearning to be with
people, to interact, to enjoy the company of society. What is life
without the frolic of companionship?Life's beauty lies with our journey
of hello's and goodbye's. We don't only need the company of society,
we also need someone who will guide us, to keep us in check. Without
someone whou would ring the bell when we're noisy, we'd all be in
shambles. Saint Augustine once expressed that man is restless without
God. We can only attain peace in God alone. Serenity could not be
attained by merely picking pebbles on the way home, it is something
acquired through God. God can giveth, and God can taketh. He can give
us calm amidst a storm, He can also take it away. God is the authority
that gives us the things we need, rather than what we want, but still
remains anonymous. He so love us that He gave the answers to His
questions, we just need to encircle the letter of our choice. He so
wanted us to be better persons that whenever we pray, instead of giving
us directly the solution, He gives us oppurtunities. We are frankly
just nothing without God. The
road to man's happiness is not ultimately the road less travelled,
sometimes it is the road where everybody else is taking. Sometimes the
horizon is so clear, we tend to overburden things; in simplicity lies
our content. It's really up to us to bring this authenticity, this
simplicity, this unburdened clarity into our looking. We are a very
complex, yet a very simple specie, we just need to be with others and
God to understand "US" better.
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