By Fareed Omar
With suffering comes grief with grief comes death. Death brings about grief and ultimately suffering. And the cycle continues.
Perhaps the secret to a long life is in happiness and contentment.
Life is good when you are happy. Ah yes! The good of life.
For those that are married I am sure they have heard the saying 'Happy wife. Happy life' A deeper scrutiny behind the meaning of this could possibly be interpreted that for you to be happy then the solution is simple... just make those around you happy.
Religion encourages giving of alms to the poor, it encourages charity. We may not really think about it but even science proves that dopamine and serotonin are released in the brain when we see or are around people that are happy. Be it through a smile of gratitude or a simple thank you from one, it is actually, a toast to your longevity.
The interpretation and connection of how and what toast is, i leave to you.
Be it through burnt bread or through the cling of a wine glass, one thing is for sure... an excess of it and your life is toast.
So a balance between sadness and happiness needs to be. A balance of the ying and yang necessary. For without one then there will be no balance.
Balance... thats all you have to do.
There is no one who deliberately wants to cause sadness of another.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions...
Even the most evil of persons try and find justification in what they are doing, be it revenge or a means to an end. The mind of ego. The mind of satan. So this evil we read and talk about, we can now see the synonimity in the three; Ego,Satan, Evil.
Religion talks about Satan being an angel and refuses to bow to mankind because he believed he was far too better.
He was the best among the angels, and better created according to his inner voice, within his own ego.
Within mankind we do have something that he probably does not know how to control and that is... balance.
Balance of thought!
We humans are able to decipher true happiness. And this pure joy is not that in ourselves, but in others. We are not here on this world to serve ourselves but to serve others.
Question arises;
'Do we do good for others because of the promise of reward or is it genuinely because we appreciate the smile behind another?'
Until we understand the answer then, and only then, will we be able to know what makes us human.
Celestial enjoyed not in mortal but in immortality by the soul. The soul within.
Think about it, differentiate yourselves. 'You will suffer alone in hell but you will be with others in heaven.'
What the hell?
Depictions on all the religous books seem to illustrate a dark place, screams heard but torment alone.
A slice of heaven, you can taste even now on earth. (once you understand the concept of sharing share with others.)
When will we learn and see the true picture?! We have been foretold... all prophets came to deliver people from a certain happening in that time.
The Christians believe that Jesus came and died for our sins. In the bible, we are told of a miracle where Jesus fed 4000 people with 7 loaves of bread and a few small fish. By sharing and caring, the people were able to eat to their fill.
The Muslims are taught to share their wealth with those that do not have. The pain and suffering of another can be shared perhaps through fasting but can be ended through sharing. Even the penalty for not fasting without cause during the holy month of Ramadhan is by feeding a poor person for a continuous sixty days or by feeding over sixty poor people.....
The penalty of our ego is sharing and caring. Be it for health or for heaven, The reward comes assured but not as a driving force.
Emotion! We are cautioned against it in its extreme. It is when we are in a highly emotional state that evil takes over us. Our ego begins, 'why me?' Before you know it another emotion comes along, 'he/she cant! I will revenge!' And thus we attain regret as we remain confused on whether our subsequent actions were out of anger or bravado! But we all know that the bravery story is a means to try and justify.
I reiterate... the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
So let not our own emotions impact our actions.
Without fear or tear, let us do good. Not for ourselves, but to others and we shall in turn feel good.
I fear not to share with you this....There are two inate fears that we are born with.
Every other fear is learned! Its all in the mind.
But one thing is for sure, when you are in fear, you are never alone. Help and/or salvation always comes to rescue.
A baby when in fear, cries! Lactating mothers can sometimes and most times have the intuition that their baby is crying and needs to feed.
A tear from the baby!
I question the composition of this one tear. Majorly composed of water.
Mankind! Our mortality is based on 70 percent water in our bodies. That's the element of man! I suppose we CAN read about him and his kind in this metaverse, for he may as well remain a portmanteau worded autobiografiction.
Mutatis mutandis, we CAN understand man and his kind.
"Man' named in his individual nature.
'Mankind' collectively named in his societal and universal nature.
Yes, in compound, the kindness added to man is what makes us human. Not just the water. Albeit water being our composition, our earth composition and our life. Yes! we need water in three dimensions to exist and co-exist.
Any who, lets drop the subject for now in a way that only a collaboration between snoop dog and pharell could sing about.
Lets drop the droplets!
Individually its just a droplet collectively, its rain.
Can you actually tell anyone it was raining if you only felt a single raindrop alone?I doubt not your spatial ability to visualize the squall.
Rain! Only gets it name not from the one drop that falls on you. The rudiment of rain depends on the visible mizzle, the separate droplets that fall on you and others. The shared raindrops.
There is a secret in sharing.
Just as some may believe, there is power in a prayer made in the rain.
We all have walked under torrential downpour. Which do you remember? A walk alone or a shared walk with a loved one?
I share with you, a personal allusion...
"In life we all cry alone but the minute we start laughing alone, we are thrown to the funny farm."
