Life is Simple,

I did not find the right category selection for this blog as the selection was limited, it should have been under human interest, so i ceated this category “Human Interest”.

We do go through life’s journey in what appears to be a pre-determined path we are not aware until we are about to reach the end of it all.

We all start with the stage I call “survival“, a period in our lives which differ from one person to another, depending on how well we had been provided for by our fathers, remember, our fathers, not mothers. I guess I am inclined to believe that fathers should be the family’s provider of the basics, food, shelter, strength, security and those sorts. The mother simply nurtures us till we do no longer need nurturing, again, period depends on how fast we have grasped life’s idiosyncracies ( did I get the spelling right?). This is also the stage when we start to create our dreams, having no capabilities of our own to taste, enjoy or experience the good and beautiful things beyond our reach. At this point, we simply need to survive and absorb everything that comes our way. we are practically helpless on our own, so we need parental and family support all the time.

Then we progress to a stage I call “reaching dreams” stage where, after having survived the journery at “survival“, we start to reach our dreams we had when we were still in “survival“. Along the way, we do reach some dreams and miss others but in the end, as they say, it is how your went through the journey that matters, not what you took along the way.

I guess I have passed these two stages of life’s journey and now has reached what I would call “curtain call” stage where after having gone through the “survival” and “reaching dreams” stages, we begin questioning the reason/s and purpose/s for why we had to go through these stages in life’s journey. Again, to others, there is a tendency to go back to the survival stage knowing that their own journey is nearing its end. Some people try to fight back the hands of time and try to go back to the days when they were still in the survival or reaching dreams stage. This is actually when we go way past these two stages without having added the spiritual content of our lives. A lot of people who had done so, are afraid to face the reality that their own life’s journey is nearing its end, these are the people who are afraid to reach the end of their journey because they had enjoyed much of the earlier stages of life and would want to freeze Father Time so there will be no end to what they have acquired, enjoyed, and experienced. But if we have built and nurtured our relationship with Whomever we believe Created us, and understand the reason/s why we were created at all, we shall not be afraid of the proximity of the end of our life’s journey for we could look forward to a new beginning, hopefully, when our life on earth comes to an end. To some, particularly the powerful and the successful, the inevitable end of the journey is a thought they would not even want to happen especially at the period when they are reaching their dreams.

To some people, again not all, it is how much or how many they carried through these stages that would influence their answers to the question of the purpose/s of our life’s journey. To others, its more what we want to leave behind to those still going through their own life’s journey, like the ladders left by the early climbers of Mt. Everest, makes the later climber’s efforts easier.

I guess I have long decided to go with the latter than the earlier as I have not read a single book that says we need them in the final stages of our life’s journey. As my soul moves away from my physical body to a previously uncharted course at the end of my life’s journey, I would love to look back and see who went to my funeral, what eulogies or curses they delivered, and those who were happy or cried knowing I have gone.

At this point, I still have to figure out the next stage and therefore do not have a name for it. I just hope I can leave something behind so it would be easier for those I would leave behind. God! I did my best with all the gifts that You have given me! Thank you for everything and forgive me for all the wrong things I have said and done and all the right things I have failed to say or do.

POSTED BY PALABOY NG SYDNEY AT 6:29 AM