[Effects of time/pain & something about love]

Somethings i learnt in the past 2 weeks. Time only numbs our pain, but it never erases it. Popular belief is that time will aid removing the object of hurt, but that cannot be futher from the truth. Time is like the sand of the vast desert, only serving to bury the object of pain, not removing it. Eventually when its hidden deep enough, we all just hope to forget about it and move on. The fact is this method works, but only temporary. For someone, someday or something will come across and unearth it, and then we will have to deal with it all over again. The time frame may be undetermined, but it would surely come to past. By then, we must then decide whether to dispose of the object of pain similarly again or deploy other methods. As for me, I only know one.





Love is everything in Christianity. The truth is that we can find many other substitutes in other religion. (This is with regards to their own religion. Everyone in their own religion believes in what in their gods says.) We may hear of eternal life elsewhere, converting the entire world to a sole religion, peace offered in the hectic world, a chance of redeem themselves though multiple lifes and many more. Yet only Christian offers love. The God who created us has offered to love us. And sending His son to die for us is the ultimate declaration of that love, is that why we boast not in a religion but in a relationship? Without love, we have nothing unique to offer compared to the rest of the religions.

However sometimes as humans we all lose sight of this simple fact so easily. In fact the hardest part of the bible is not to obey the rest of the commandments, but to obey the Greatest commandment of love. All the other commandments in the bible speaks of tangible actions and benchmarks. Do not defile your body, honor your parents, do not bear false testimony against your neighbour... These are all definite commandments. Black or white. You either do it or you don't. The question is, how do you love? How do you even measure it or claim to love a person? Its intangible. There's not system nor format nor template to follow. What may appear to be love to one may not be to another. There's no directions to follow. Its just love. One idea, many ways of putting it across. You can spend your life trying to love a person wholeheartedly, and when you are about to succeed, you realized that life contains more then just one person.

Frankly speaking, i think its easier to be a Pharisee then to love people. In fact, its probably true. At least righteousness of the Pharisees can be measured in some sort of ways, unlike love. Well, its probably human to take the easy way out, just keep yourself obedient and heck the rest of the people and become just like one of the Pharisees. Then again, Jesus never really gave us an easy task to begin with isnt it? He commanded us to love. Do we truly understand what lies behind that "simple" commandment? Yet once we choose not to love, we have already missed out the entire point of Christianity.