The sun peeked gracefully at our flat's window as if jubilantly excited to caress my skin. It's as if it had been rejuvenated from a painful sunset that it gloriously cherished another day being up in the clear sky. I stretched my arms wide, receiving every sunray as much as I can obtain and joyfully whispering my love for life. I stopped to think over of my privileges for today. How many people all over the globe cannot appreciate what sunrise is because they were born blind; or how many patients now are struggling between life and death; how many out there are dying in pain and fighting hope against hope with their illnesses. On the other hand, how many people out there are whining just because they cannot be contented of their newly bought make-up or treated hair, or because the food on the table was not served hot; or the elevator door came passed them. How many of us are complaining of our little problems while others are sick enough to endure theirs. How many of us gets out of our bed dragging our feet to work when others are bedbound of debilitating disease or never got the chance to wake up at all.
There are times when we are being weighed down by life; probably a betrayal from a long-term relationship, being turned down from a work or promotion you've been praying for, or not granted your U.S. or green card visa,etc. etc. etc. The whining is endless, and there's no cure. Unless you learned that today will be your last.
Today is the last day you will get out of bed, the last day you will eat food not served warm, last day you will apply your make-up on or ride an elevator. Today will be your last day of work, your last laugh with friends, your last hug with your kids, the last talk with your love ones. Today is definitely the last day of your life.
What will you do? Where you'll be? Whom you'll be with?
I guess there will be an increase statistics of "Thank You's" and "I Love You's". Our homes will be overpopulated, and the malls will be ghost-towns. Your problem now would have been then how to make the clock pace slow to get more out of life..to say more comforting words, to bathe more with sunshine, to live life deeply with enthusiasm serving others, and the world by then will evolve in a new axis called LOVE.
Today, the clock ticks without our plain knowing.
The world evolves with our own sets of priorities.
And you chase things knowing you have 24 hours.
If today is your last 24 hours,
Where will God be then in your life?
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