LIFE IS OURS TO DEFINE

 

Up this morning, after a heart-to-heart talk with God my Father, I suddenly remembered my days back in the university. Almost every semester, I witnessed a candle light procession for a dead student and saw obituaries of university staff, some of whom I had known. There is this usual expression of loss and sympathy for family members of the deceased and a little prayer said for their souls, but one thing remains, life still goes on. Sometimes I get baffled but I also cannot help it because I also do not stop working or living, I do not put my activities on hold, if I have lectures to attend, I still go and so does every other person standing beside me looking at the obituary. Life presents to us many events, joyful or disappointing, fulfilling or heart wrenching but our resolve to live through these challenging moments and come out refined and stronger makes the difference between losers and winners, rich and poor, strong and weak, happy and sad. No event that occurs in our lives is worth bringing to a halt the joy of living. The past is not ours to change but the future is ours to define.

It is never too late, we have every opportunity to forgive ourselves and those who have hurt us, leave the baggage of the past behind and LIVE AGAIN.