If It Were Your Last Day, What Would You Do?

  
      If it were your last day, what would you do?

     The question above was repeatedly asked by the radio Deejay on Sunday. This question even is common in question and answer portion in beauty pageants. This made me think how weird this people are, asking such question that is so normal on everyday living. Don't they know that everyday we live is our last? Everyday, we are given the chance to live our lives the best way we want it. Why do we wait for the day when someone would tell us that we would never be alive the next day so we have to do all we want to do this last day that we have? So very absurd thinking. And when others answer this question with all confidence and nobility on how they would live their last day, we would be taken with awe and says, "wow! what a very noble person." Hello! If you believe it were your last day, then do right this very moment the things you want and love to do.

     Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Let me just echo this words from the mystics. What is wrong with us people is that we tend to live in wishful thinking. We love others to believe we have noble plans. The question is, when? When would we do such noble acts? The best answers of the people to the question above are: share to the poor, spend the day with their loved ones, spend their money, go take a vacation to some exotic place, be good, be kind...etc. Beautiful answers, yet nonsense. It would only makes sense if they would act on it today and onwards. If this is going to be so, what a wonderful world we would have.

     On my part, there is no need for me to give the answer to you. I am living my life daily the way I want it. If it is not perfect or remarkable, all because my life is a journey, a process of becoming. Day by day, I am moving an inch to the pedestal I want to put myself to. My life is in God's hands. And if God favors me with a longer one, then it would delight Him and me to see in the end the completion of a worthwhile journey He blessed me with.

     Happy living!     
   

THE QUEST FOR HAPPINESS

Even when we are young the quest for happiness is already in us. As babies we crave for a toy, and when it is given to us we become happy. It also makes our parents happy to see us happy and contented.
As we grow older our unconscious definition of happiness becomes complicated. Our environment influences us in our choices. What is new and acceptable becomes our basis to becoming happy. Soon we equate happiness with materialism. We become a slave of the thought that unless we get what we crave for we could never be happy; or unless something happen according to how we want it to happen we could never be happy.
Our wise heavenly Father already foresee that we would one day arrive to this kind of situation. He knows this imperfection in our nature, which would lead us to forget Him, that He would no longer matter to us. We still do pray. But our prayers is only for the protection of our possessions or for the achievements of our selfish desires.
Yet, no matter how much we squander the wealth God has given to us; no matter how we abuse the free will that has been bestowed upon us, He still leave the choice to us and condemned us not. For, what makes us unhappy is the very fact that we are made in His own image and likeness. This image and likeness of God is what keep us from straying away from Him. This is what urge us to find the true happiness which could only be found in God.
The way to finding this happiness is never easy when we are to be realistic. But it is achievable when it is worked upon on a day to day basis; for with God nothing is impossible.