Ok this is where e cliche goes "hi im back after soooo long i havent had time cos of sch,cca, church.." and so on and so forth. Lucky for you, im e coolest guy on earth and cliche just well, isn't my style =P so yeah, no cliches here(:
(Stop thinking this is cliche. It isn't. Really.)
See dan i learnt how to paragraph and it's all thanks to you. Bet you're proud of me! =)
I am blogging because it is cool and hip and i am cool and hip.
Anyways, (this ISNT KI, doof.), you ever wondered why the pong we're here on earth?
Ok this Is cliche but hey, it's important. hmph.
Seriously, i was watching forrest gump (Not A Word.) and couldnt help reflecting on that. again.
Ok for you deprived sad souls who havent watched it, it basically shows e lifestory of a guy called Forrest Gump (duh) Go watch it yourself. Im not posting no spoilers here.
*cough* He dies. *cough*
I have a strict no spoiler policy. It's just not nice.
Anyways, it really struck me. E dvd case hit my head when it fell off my shelf ='(
That aside, it really struck me. What's life about, to us?
Some of us view studies as the One and Only mostestest important thingy in life. Don't believe me, ask your parents.
Others, (like me!), may say friends and relationships are way more important than studies, and really we could get straight A's but have no friends it wouldnt be worth it at all. Yknow e whole EQ more important than IQ thing? yeah.
Honestly, i feel lotsa people definitely sway towards e relationships more impt than most other stuff cos well, imagine having all e money in e world but no one to share it with. So, dont mind me while i blog about what i believe in. It isn't biased, honest.
Ok so let's ASSUME im right, (that shouldnt be too difficult). We're heading down the road which goes "money can't buy happiness". It's really easy to see how- I guess most of us would take it this way: It cant buy you true friends. Or love. And other stuff. So yeah, money gets you lotsa stuff, but relationships, well, not that.
(I know this is uberrr long, but hey, i was bored, okay?)
So.. we're kinda saying that happiness, or most of ours anyways, stems from our relationships or love and things like that right? Just say yes. Be nice.
Ok so we're heading down this really nice path in life. It may not have all e riches in e world and it may be like, real tough, working 12 hours a day etc, but you've got great friends or even a spouse to get you through it. Their love, and yours, gets you through e arduous long days.
The years go by, sands of time trickle down, e years fly past, whatever. Time passes.
Soon enough, you find yourself facing retirement- it's a good thought i suppose, after years of slogging away. You and your spouse can Finally just sit down and relax, chill with friends (I have no idea what a bunch of elderly folk do when they, uh, Chill, but let's not get too imaginative here)
Ok lets say you're reclining in a rocking chair recounting fond memories, looking at photos. Memories just rock don't they.
Then, one by one, your friends get ill, bed-ridden, comatose, really sick, and they die. People you care about start dropping out of your life. The people you shared your joys and sorrows with are dead. Gone forever.
You mourn with your life-partner. Then your spouse dies too.
Memories are all you've got left.
Till you die, too.
Then you've got absolutely nothing. Nothing at all.
It's easy how we can say materialism's useless cos it's something we can't take with us when we die and all that stuff, but we cant take our memories with us either. We cant take warm fuzzy feelings and moments we treasure so much with us when we pass out of this life, into the next.
So, what on earth are we here for?? While we're living, so many things can mean sooo much to us. Our loved ones could mean e world, and we'd just Dieee if they were brutally ripped away from us. As as wise wise man once said, life is all about relationships after all huh. Without them, what'd there be left to live for?
As christians, I think our life's still all about relationships. But relationships with whom?
There's only one that truly counts, and if this relationship doesn't mean more to us than the world, then maybe there's something we gotta start thinking about.
