Underneath the surface

Bankrupt....

Have you ever met anyone so emotionally bankrupt that they believe their own lies?

Their offices gleam in posh leather, and their desks full of important papers. Papers that controls lives, destinies and future of children. Their faces reflect their own anguish of what awaits them when their working day is over.

I often wandered what makes them tick? What makes them go on? It possibly cannot be money, because they revel in it. Is it their despite against their lives? Can it be the lonely bed? or the fact that the person that shares the bed is there for wrong reasons? I really don't know.

I don't know because until now I have never been emotionally poor.

What would you choose?

In teachings of Buddha which is what I learnt as a boy, the balanced life is key. He said those 2500 years ago and I feel they are still true.....

In fact all religions focus on this balanced life. A life which is emotioanlly balanced. Perhaps too simple for our complicated mind to comprehend? Perhaps too simple to be true?

posted by Rivi @ 4:20 AM 0 comments

Tomorrow

"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."

--
William Shakespeare
From Macbeth (V, v, 19)

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