the unexamined life is not worth living. and here, is where i scrutinise mine with surfeited glee.
So I’ve been told, more than once, that life isn’t a bed of roses. Doesn’t take long to figure that out. What many might have failed to comprehend, myself included, is how we should not just remain resilient in the face of challenges, but actually learn to enjoy the process of working ourselves out of problems. As cliché as it sounds, problems are indeed challenges to be overcomed.
Let’s not let our problems paralyse us. Carpe Diem!
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Well, you have to admit that this is indeed a fresh take on the definition of life. And since it’s incurable, we shouldn’t take it too seriously. Agree?
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Hilarious! But after laughing, it was a sober reminder that the pasture always seems greener on the side. Like what Atticus Finch taught his children (and me): that you never really know a man until we stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Atticus is my fictional hero because I learnt several invaluable life lessons from him: living life everyday with integrity, moral courage and empathy. He is almost superhuman to me and is my all-time number 1 idol.
Hopefully, by the time I am ready to leave this world, I would have become at least half the person Atticus Finch is.
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Professor: You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ?
Student: Yes, sir.
Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?
Student: Absolutely, sir.
Professor: Is GOD good ?
Student: Sure.
Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?
Student: Yes.
Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?
(Student was silent.)
Professor: You can’t answer, can you? Let’s start again, young fella. Is GOD good?
Student: Yes.
Professor: Is satan good ?
Student: No.
Professor: Where does satan come from ?
Student: From … GOD …
Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Y es.
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.
Professor: So who created evil ?
(Student did not answer.)
Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?
Student: Yes, sir.
Professor: So, who created them ?
(Student had no answer.)
Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?
Student: No, sir.
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?
Student: No , sir.
Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?
Student: No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.
Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.
Professor: According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.
Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.
Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Professor: Yes.
Student: And is there such a thing as cold?
Professor: Yes.
Student: No, sir. There isn’t.
(The lecture theatre became very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)
Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?
Student: You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?
Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?
Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how?
Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.
Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going.)
Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
(The class was in uproar.)
Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?
(The class broke out into laughter. )
Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable.)
Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.
Student: That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.
P.S.
By the way, that student was EINSTEIN.
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Very profound, and very true at the same time. So I should be thankful for the obstacles that come my way because they only make me stronger. And hopefully I become a better person.
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This is so true, isn’t it? I once came across this quote - Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. I think many of us make the same mistake of not living in the moment.
A timely reminder.
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Wit aside, this is a sobering reminder that not everything in life requires close scrutiny. Sometimes we just need to go out and do it because opportunity seldom knocks twice.
Carpe Diem!
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Oh… I love this…
Want to add one more of my own…
Just because I kept quiet doesn’t mean that I don’t remember.
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Everything happens for a reason. That is not to say that we should leave things to fate. On the contrary, learn from every single experience that comes by your way because you’ll never know if it will come in useful one day.
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