The Big Things and The Small Things
The bomb blasts in London really reminded me that life is about big things and small things. The small things - your problems, what to eat, what to wear - fade away in the light of the big things, and the biggest thing is existence.
Whether we exist or not is the biggest thing ever. The chances of us coming into being are so small. Out of the millions of infinitesimal sperm, one of them met with an egg to become you, and out you came prolooop into the world, with everything intact and functioning properly. The chances of us dying at any one moment are small, but the chance is so real. A missed bus here, a train trip there could make the difference between life and death - a forgotten passport, a punctuality problem.
The small things can niggle at times. What people say about you, how you don't know whether to trust people or not, how giving can sometimes be tiring. But this is just the way life is - a problem free life wouldn't be a normal life at all.
I say we settle the big things first. Because life is so brief, because we know that the chances of anything happening at any one instant are never zero, we need to know what we're living for.
Most of us just want to be happy and have fun. But fun sometimes comes at the price of self-respect. You can have everything in the world and the smoothest life, but things are still empty. You still get disillusioned and you would rather go along with the system than influence the system at the loss of your own peace.
I think whatever it is we are searching for, most of us are searching for our purpose. And there is a God-shaped hole inside our hearts, no matter how we try to rationalize it away. Why not settle the big things first, because there is no time to waste. Someday, the big things might not wait for you any more.
Whether we exist or not is the biggest thing ever. The chances of us coming into being are so small. Out of the millions of infinitesimal sperm, one of them met with an egg to become you, and out you came prolooop into the world, with everything intact and functioning properly. The chances of us dying at any one moment are small, but the chance is so real. A missed bus here, a train trip there could make the difference between life and death - a forgotten passport, a punctuality problem.
The small things can niggle at times. What people say about you, how you don't know whether to trust people or not, how giving can sometimes be tiring. But this is just the way life is - a problem free life wouldn't be a normal life at all.
I say we settle the big things first. Because life is so brief, because we know that the chances of anything happening at any one instant are never zero, we need to know what we're living for.
Most of us just want to be happy and have fun. But fun sometimes comes at the price of self-respect. You can have everything in the world and the smoothest life, but things are still empty. You still get disillusioned and you would rather go along with the system than influence the system at the loss of your own peace.
I think whatever it is we are searching for, most of us are searching for our purpose. And there is a God-shaped hole inside our hearts, no matter how we try to rationalize it away. Why not settle the big things first, because there is no time to waste. Someday, the big things might not wait for you any more.
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