THE EMPTY ROOM!
The Empty Room!
I always find it shocking and unbelievable
that even though we live in a crowded universe, one can still find an empty
room to steal away.
The empty room is Heaven’s way to
lead us back to God after everything else has failed.
Occasionally, we tend to believe that being
surrounded or finding ourselves in a crowd of people, all is well.
Depending on others is our natural
baby instinct we inherited from our mothers. The busy world evolving around
gives us a false sense of security.
I still do not understand why it takes a
lifetime for a man to discover his true self. We would have been wiser and
graduated right early in life if wisdom matured in tandem with puberty.
But alas, wisdom like a baobab tree takes
years to settle in the belly of the earth.
The empty room. I have been walking down these
rough trenches of life, searching, and hunting for who knows what.
After all these decades of sweats
and pain, I still long for a day wherein I could say: finally, I made it and am
satisfied and ready to die!
Even though I have spent decades inside
this empty room, the road ahead still feels like light years away.
Why do I keep forgetting that my
life began inside the empty womb of my Dear Mother?
How soon did I forget that I got delivered
into this gigantic empty room called the Earth?
I was born and grew up in a roomful
of people and got introduced into a busy world porous with people all around. I
had to carefully crawl around this world filled with giants to find my balance
and front views.
At conception, our lives develop and grow
into the real human image. Looking in the mirror always brings us closer to
ourselves.
In life, and after birth; maturing through
time deceives us that we are still growing up: when in fact, the shrinkage
started earlier even before we learned to speak.
The empty room reflects my
current state, where I feel isolated and without meaningful connections. Incredibly, this empty room has been
recording every single step I have ever taken, complete with every word uttered.
The empty room. My solitude and
place of self-recovery. It is hard for people to see the need for an empty room
when they believe they are still on track with their future firmly grasped
within their victorious palms.
If life were all about riches, wealth, and
grabbing all the material things; none of us would live to regret it. If you win
or lose, no beef; that is just the way life goes!
O what a tragedy!
Rejoice, O young man in thy youth: and let
thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine
heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things
God will bring thee into Judgement.
What's
unsettling is that these immortal words came from King Solomon, who had
everything.
Barns were fully stocked
with supplies, accompanied by a household consisting of seven hundred wives and
three hundred concubines.
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