it breaks my heart to see the world, today, so full of cynicism, depression, hate, jealousy,arrogance, violence. . . . and it has shaped the people today, so different from way back in the days when life was so simple, back in the days when my parents were just kids and they would tell me about what simplistic lives they lived. where their worries only narrows down to having enough food to keep them alive, poverty, and having a sense of community, a family. it was everything in the world to them. those were the most important things that made them happy.
but if you look at the world today, you flip through your morning papers and find that another death hits the front page. these actions that ppl do, are a result from the negative values possessed by the cold, selfish, cynical thing we call the 'modern day society'.
i just found out this morning that a friend of mine whose father recently commited suicide and passed away due to severe depression. its such devastating news to me and it upsets me to know that these things actually do happen and that there are ppl out there that suffers from countless types of mental illness and issues that results in a loss of life. yes i know of it, yes i hear it on the news, yes i have done studies on the statistics of suicidal deaths, i watch it on tv all the time, ppl talk about it. but it has never moved me like today's news moved me. it never affected me until it happened to someone that i was in some way connected to. and because of that, it has reminded me that life really is WAY TOO SHORT.
we should be filling up the multiple voids in our lives caused by hate instead with love, faith and hope. we should never hate people before we find out that there are a million things to love about that particular person. "never judge the book by its cover". i know there's nothing more cliche than that but its true.
bible study during lunch today was good, it was what made me write what i have to write in this post and Jake's family will be in my prayers and may his dad rest in peace.
