“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
“We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.”
Well, I love how Rick Warren
describes about our past. Currently, I am reading Man's Search For Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl. I enjoyed the foreword by Harold S. Kushner.
He described how a man was faced with his
emotional turmoil when the Nazi threw all his credentials and degree into the
dustbin, and told him that he has nothing left. It hit me so hard. I begin
imagining one day… I am in front of God. And He just chucked aside everything I
worked my life for into maybe thin air? They can vanish and dissolve into
little particles with a touch of God's fingertips. Everything I worked for
would be NOTHING. Then, I realized how vulnerable I was. Who am I to
think I am worthy just because I had a degree. Anyone else can have the same
degree. Someone can come in and destroy what I had. Probably the government
starts to set a law that an arts degree is nothing compared to a lawyer degree
or considered unworthy in this society. After all, humans are the ones who set
the rules and determine our morals. We are the evil ones who invent all the
good and bad stuff. War wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the greed of human. Is
there anything not created by humans? Religion? Language? What really matters
in the end?
I remember how I was so inspired by Candy Chang
and her Before I Die project. I kept remembering her words which help me to set
my paths right. She said that “Thinking about death helps her to see things
clearer.” I keep that dearly to me. Whenever you know that you might die the
very next day, month, year… you might want to hold back your arguments and
instead tell your loved ones how much you meant to them.
Probably, your degree doesn’t even mean much.
You are not more than nor less than anyone else. We are equal.
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