When sacrifice is the name of the game
There is a saying that real charity cannot be done without personal sacrifice.. and that if we give away the things we have in excess as charity, it would only insult the person who receive it.
Hmmm…
Yea, this is another facts-of-life-according-to-yours-truly-who’s-too-free kind of entry… bound to bore even the most unrelentless of unboredables.. wahaha
I recollect a time not too long ago, when every living cell in my body agreed unanimously that becoming a doctor is definitely what I want to be. No, it wasn’t instinct or a God sent calling that prompted such thinking but rather… a paradigm shift. Unfortunately… my self made paradigms have a habit of expiring faster than a loaf of gardenia bread placed adjacent a sewer.. argh..
Paradigms, paradigms, paradigms… what was I thinking.. hmmm
I think my subconscious craving to serve as a doctor may have something to do with my desire to lead a meaningful life… While most others would put top consideration to the monetary renumerations when considering a career… because money can help a person live in comfort, and obviously, live happily ever after with money to spare for generations to come… I am tempted to think… pleasures.. comfort, I’ve enjoyed my share of them for the past 17 years… and they serve a purpose only as occasional jolts to activity… isn’t the craving for comfort… akin to living the life of an animal? An animal does what an animal does because it makes the animal comfortable… as human beings, possessing a higher degree of consciousness generally, shouldn’t we strive towards… a higher platform of thinking… a higher spiritual plane?
There is a saying that goes something like this: If you received an income without working hard, then someone worked hard without receiving an income… an excellent way to describe much of the world we live in today… at one corner we have the likes of Bill Gates, Donald Trump, those good looking movie stars… and at another corner, we have those who worked hard without receiving an income… God knows who they are, there are trillions of them walking or, have already walked… the earth.. the only one I could think of is mother Theresa… as the rest were probably never recorded by the history of the known world.. they were just.. THEM.. I’m not trying to say that to make money one needs to take it from someone else, but I’m merely trying illustrate the great big valley of everything in the world that separates these 2 classes of people.
Personally, I think the most meaningful human life award could never be given, for the naming of its nominees would contradict the very nature of its meaning.. and I also happen to believe that to sacrifice personal comfort, safety, time, for the sake of serving another fellow human being… is a noble thing… and gives a warm fuzzy feeling in the heart.. after all, all human hearts, know very well that it is… the right thing to do.
The life of a human soul with too much worldly wealth.. what meaning has it begotten? to me, little.. if any… and what about the people who impose all kinds of conditions for people to receive their favour and affections? conditional love, a very obvious disease of most self centered people… really does more harm than good to the person with such traits… after all.. God created us out of love, what does a person gain if he hogs everything he possesses?
Unconditional love is important for good health.
Remember the parable of the 2 seas:
Two Seas
There are two seas in Palestine. One is fresh and fish are in it. Splashes of green adorn its banks. Trees spread their branches over it, and stretch out their thirsty roots to sip of its healing waters. Along its shores the children play, as children played when Jesus was there. He loved it. He could look across its silver surface when He spoke His parables. And on a rolling plain not far away He fed 5,000 people. The river Jordan makes this sea with sparkling water from the hills. Men build their houses near to it, and birds build their nests; and every kind of life is happier because it is there.
The river Jordan flows on south into another sea.
Here is no splash of fish, no fluttering leaf, no song of birds, no children’s laughter. Travelers choose another route, unless on urgent business. The air hangs heavy above its waters, and neither man nor beast nor fowl will drink.
What makes up this difference in these neighbor seas? Not the river Jordan. It empties the same good water into both. Not the soil in which they lie, not the country round about. This is the difference. The sea of Galilee receives but does not keep the Jordan. For every drop of water that flows into it, another drop flows out. The other sea is shrewder, hoarding its income jealously. It will not be tempted into any generous impulse. The sea of Galilee gives and lives. This other sea gives nothing. It is named the Dead Sea.
There are two kinds of people in this world. There are two seas in Palestine.
Enough ramblings for today.. in a nutshell… sacrifice is good for health
quotes from the bible:
25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works
Well, doctors are not born but made… And from this I refuel my enthusiasm to persue my ambition.. wahaha
so er, to whoever’s reading this, I hope it inspires a few of your brain cells.. lol…..
END BORING (BUT MEANINGFUL) RANT
