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What is this life if full of care?




It’s so scary to be human. I always wonder where I’ll be in about 50 years’ time. We are all going to die someday. We don’t know how and we don’t know when and we don’t know where. But if there’s one thing human beings are sure of, it is that they all are going to die someday.

I remember one day when I was in secondary school. I don’t remember what exactly was happening but I know that all the students were filing from the Hall…..about a thousand and something of us. I remember thinking, “One day, all these people will be dead. We will all be dead.” I got really scared just thinking about the time when most of us would be dead and the rest would just be waiting to die. Life sucks. Why can’t we be young forever?

I know someone who said that the greatest gift that God has given us human beings is the gift of not knowing when we will die. Point there. But some people would rather know. Some people would rather plan ahead. Some people would stop work or stop going to school...and just party! Or pray.

Anyway, my point is this. We are living in a world we just found ourselves in. We don’t really know what we are doing here. Or if we can complete what we think we are doing. What is the ultimate goal? Most of us don’t know. We worry so much about the future. Our future lives. We can’t even be certain that we will live them. Yet we worry.
“What is this life if full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare...”
It’s a pity I don’t remember who wrote that. I don’t even remember how the poem goes after that line. But every time I feel uncertain about what the future holds, and I am worried about one thing or the other, especially things that are yet to happen, I remind myself that “What is this life if full of care...”

And every time I hear about someone’s death, I think “What is this life if full of care....”