Earless Coffins & Useless Tears
View(s):My grandmother has five sons, out of which only my father is interested in looking after her.
The other four sons are not keen on sparing time on her, they do not visit my grandma even one single day for the whole year. I told my uncles that coffins do not have ears and their tears will be worthless in the presence of my grandma’s coffin.
It is saddening to see how people are gathering reasons to regret in life. If at all a man must be afraid of his actions, it should be in doing things which will lead him towards condemnation and regret.
Many people cry over dead bodies and coffins that are unable to hear, merely as they have not been able to fulfill their responsibilities towards their parents who are now lying in a coffin that is certainly deaf towards their tears.
They cry and weep as though the coffin could hear them. Their tears are meaningless and they live the rest of their lives in an ocean of condemnation. The worst part of it is to witness how condemnation chases you all throughout your life. Some people weep until they have no more tears to shed, yet they are unable to exchange those tears for peace. There is nothing valuable enough in this world that you can exchange for the condemnation that you may feel.
I know of a friend who lives in utter misery due to the death of his father who died as a result of an unbearable heart attack he got the night his son scolded him. Do not push yourself into irrevocable actions that are non-reversible.
Show this article with your children, teach them to see the pure truth of treating parents. Do not pass on your anger to the next day as the person you hold a grudge with may never have a tomorrow.
What if that person dies the very night? If I hurt my wife out of my own weakness, I make it a point to kiss her forehead and ask for pardon before we go to bed at night. None of us are perfect, we all have our own weaknesses in some area or the other. The good news is that we all have a heart that could be tuned to seek forgiveness.
Just like the strings of a guitar require to be fine-tuned in order for the chords to produce beautiful music, so do our hearts require to be tuned towards achieving rich and progressive values. If your heart is tuned to poor and destructive values then it will never be able to produce peace and happiness. High quality copra will certainly be processed into high quality coconut oil. If poor quality copra with fungus is processed using the same machine, it is bound to produce low quality coconut oil which is unfit for consumption.
What you sow is what you reap. If you have been irresponsible towards your parents then do not expect to live in peace after their death. As a responsible child, you may weep during the sorrowful times, but you will possess the ability to move forward without any condemnation after the burial.
Why would you want to gather pain when you have the ability to walk in peace? Think seriously for a moment. What type of seeds are you sowing today? Are they seeds of happiness or are they seeds of sorrow?
I can assure you one thing, and that is the fact that if you place what needs to be placed at the top of your life, then you will never have to reap regrets and condemnation. It is horrifying to see people prioritise meaningless things.
Fake smiles and pretense lifestyles are all over society. I was a fake and I lived a pretense life for many years. The day I was impelled to beg on the streets, I realised that I was eventually reaping the fruits of my fake and pretense lifestyle.
Putting tamarind into your juicer will not provide you with apple juice. One night I cried until I had no more tears left. I realised that all those years I have been fooling no one else but myself.
It is a miserable feeling to realise that you have been fooled by no one else but you. It is horrible to feel that you have been cheated by yourself. It is even worse to know that you are the person who has tuned your heart towards pain and eternal tears.
Just as a machine is well observed before it is put into use every morning, it also has to be carefully cleansed at the end of the day. Likewise, we also have two precious moments in our life that should never be wasted.
The first moment is the opportunity we are given to wake up every morning and the second moment is the opportunity we are given to go back to bed at night. Every single morning, as a practice I recall the reasons for my existence in this world. What is the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning? It is indeed devastating to see today’s youth wake up in the morning to log in to FB and Instagram, as if social media carries life in abundance or some super energy that can take you through the day.
Just as it is important to have a healthy breakfast in the morning, it is also important to be mindful of what you feed your mind every morning. What do you think would happen if you consume a plate of contaminated, stale meat for breakfast?
This is exactly what many people feed their minds with the first thing in the morning, they dump a load of rubbish into their minds. In the morning, I do not answer the calls I receive from certain people as I have understood that all they do is dump a load of rubbish on me.
My mind is not a garbage yard for garbage dumpers. As a professional I return their calls, but I make it very clear that my conversations are short and well-focused on the point so that I do not permit them to dump garbage into my mind.
Every morning, reflect precisely on what you really want in life and what your responsibilities are. Do not allow your responsibilities to slip away from your mind early in the morning. The struggles in life may push you to forego your responsibilities. If you forego your responsibilities as a result of the struggles in life, those struggles will occupy your mind completely.
If you continue to be a responsible person even amidst the struggles then your struggles will have no space to occupy in your mind as your mind is already occupied with responsibilities. If your refrigerator is full of healthy food, then it would have no space to occupy unhealthy food.
Therefore, it is of paramount importance that you are aware of what you focus on and what occupies your mind.
If your kitchen is left unclean the previous night, then you would not be able to wake up to a fresh beginning. Therefore, it is essential to take another deep thought in the night before you lay your head down on your pillow.
Think of your day, have you spent your day effectively, in terms of the purpose you recalled in depth in the morning. If you have failed to do so, take a strong decision to bounce back tomorrow.
For those of you who have failed to be responsible in the past, never allow those thoughts of regret to take control over your mind today. Remember that you cannot give life to the dead but you could certainly change your conscience today by being responsible towards those around you.
In conclusion please keep in mind that coffins do not have ears, therefore your tears will be worthless if you fail to fulfill your responsibilities at this very moment.
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