Life
Recently, I’ve been reading through a number of blogs posted by unknown people and I noticed a growing trend that got me worried. A lot of the contents from the blogs, shows that the authors are questioning their lives. What they are doing with their lives and wondering are they doing anything meaningful with their life? They seem to be lost and many would appear to be resentful to the environment that they have been brought up.
Another similarity would be that they are plagued by relationship problem. In the recent years, when you go through the papers, it is not hard to find crimes of passions or death resulting from relationship problems. Just recently, a couple was quarrelling at the MRT station and the guy allegedly pushed his girlfriend onto the MRT tracks when the train is pulling into the station. Luckily the lady escaped with minor injuries, imagine if she did not get up and moved away in time or had the boyfriend had pushed her onto the track to instant the train passes right in front of them, what would had happened? It would have been another crime of passion and a death as a result of problems in relationship.
In recent years the increase in the number of crimes committed in the heat of the moment or due to relationship problems has been steadily on the rise. No doubt that people in our times are more widely traveled and much more highly educated. However, it seems that the characters of the people in our times are getting to be more hot tempered and violent that of our fore fathers.
Couple of months back, I was going through a rather thorny path in my life and I began to question, “What is my life’s worth?” “What is the meaning to my life on Earth?” “Have I done any meaningful things or had I been squandering my life and youth away?” I then sent out numerous smses to my friends and love ones and sought out their opinion on the matter…. Not single answers were the same. Although I’ve always know that our lives are different and the path we took are never the same but it still shocked me to the core to some of the answers that I’ve gotten
Going by some of the answers that I’ve gotten, I was surprised that some of my younger friends were so much more mature to what they may have portrayed to me and some of my older friends…. Well let’s just say they are still living in fantasy land… But that just my opinion…. Each and individual of us has been brought up in different environment and we have gone through different experiences and thus these factors mould us to whom we are today and who we shall become in the future. Even for siblings who may have gone through the same environment they may have absorbed different lessons from the same problems or events that had happened in their lives.
Many young people are falling in love nowadays; it is not hard to find youngsters who look barely of legal age to be holding hands, kissing in full view of the public. Though I’m not against youngsters to be falling in love but I’m rather worried at the fact that with more media exposure and the fast moving pace that our society has evolved, many a times, the youngsters may not know what exactly they are doing and simply following the examples shown on the television or from their friends.
A survey done with the youngsters in Singapore by numerous magazines and the newspapers showed that the youths in Singapore are become more and more sexually aware and active. There had also been confessions from young girls that they had multiple abortions due to the fact that they had been engaged in unprotected sex, which was not limit to one sexual partner. No doubt that there is going to be an outcry when some females are going to read this, claiming that I’m tarnishing the image of these females or that I’m being sexist and blah blah blah…..
Wrong, I’m in fact condemning their sexual partners…. How many lives have they ruined? Very often then not these partners are the ones who had been sexually active longer and they simply refuse to see the benefit of wearing a condom just because of a little decrease in the pleasure for themselves…
What led to the fact that some girls simply engage in unprotected sex with multiple partners? Revenge? The feeling that since I’ve already done it before what’s the point of worrying about it.. Pregnant? No big deal, just go for another abortion. They simply numb themselves to the point of beyond caring.
Environment, friends, pressure makes people do things that they may not wish to but ultimately the life belongs to ourselves and we have a responsibility to live it to the fullest and to the best of our abilities. So may think who the hell this guy think he is? Some kind of saint?
Sorry to say, I’m no saint, I’m simply a fallen man who had gone through too much in a short span of time and had learned to value certain things in life which is so much more precious than any riches in the world. No doubt that we cannot do without money but we must always; always live within our means
Anger and hatred cannot resolve anything, there may be times when it’s simply easier to give in to the hate and anger within us and strike out. But the consequences will be much harder to bear. Material goods in this world can be replaced but the hurt and damaged to the ones we love will never be fully mended. What’s worse is that the hurt and damaged to the ones we love has no chance to be make up for if they are no longer in this world….
My friends and those whom that I do not know that are reading this, learn to value your own life and respect the lives of others. Learn to humble ourselves but never belittle others. Learn to bear the shame but never to shame another. If we can learn to practice forbearance, this world may be come a better place.
It may be easier to say than to put it into practice but we have to start somewhere, right? With this let me end it here and till the next blog. Take care and may your journey in life be filled with joy, love and care.