The Beginning
Life starts at birth and ends in
death. Simply put, life means being alive; being able to breathe and though
there are various forms and conditions of life, one thing is certain: if you
are not alive, you are dead. When we are born as children, we come into this
world as strangers. A world we then grow to learn from, study, understand and
adapt to. This world that we are born into offers us a number of things, and
yes these things also come in opposites: Life – Death, Truth – Lies, Courage –
Fear, Natural – Artificial and so many more opposite experiences that we come
across every day. As I have come to see and learn, some of these lines and
divisions have been blurred almost to non-existence in the eyes of many.
Something that was once told and known to be a lie has now been manipulated,
being called many new things; leverage, negotiation, skill, interpretations and
even wisdom.
Just in case at this point you
are wondering the point of this journal, it is a journey being recorded: Simply
that. It is a journal of my life, the things I have seen and experienced thus
far and my opinion on these matters. It is also my wish that you would learn
from this journal and get the best that life has to offer you, personally and
as part of a community.
Life is a full place, full of
many interesting and exciting activities: Simple ones like laughter, babies,
friendship, love, thought, decision, food, people and places. At the basic
level of life, all these things are free and easy to understand but when you
add things like culture, belief, opinion, differences and complexes, what was
once good, simple and pure becomes a blurry line of suspicious activities. This
was not the plan for Life. The plan was to have man enjoy the things that had
been given to him to enjoy in the way they had been given: life, work, family,
friends, community, food, drinks and all the simple pleasures of life. But! We
wanted more! We wanted to fly like the birds, swim like the fishes, crawl like
the snakes, eat like the dogs… In all our wanting, we began to want unhealthy
things: Men wanted to be women, Men wanted what other men had and went far
lengths to get it: to own their lands, women, culture and even their way of
life. This all added up to a great amount of evil in the world. Evil that man
did not know he was capable of: Envy, Greed, Murder, Pride, Anger,
Covetousness, Conspiracy, Incest and many more abominable acts of inhumane
origin. True Life was lost at the very beginning: Man was born into a life of
sin.
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