The Better Place
everyone wonders when the world would be a better place, or when one would be in a better place… now, have u wondered what is the better place?
Since the time men were given the Gift to think, along came the gift to be unsatisfied with anything an everything they are offered. that’s why everyone asks for a better place, and no one gets it. you should have heard it one too many times that when im saying it now, some of you might go "aww mannn! not again", yep. it’s sick.
do you think if we bring a dead person from the 1930s back to life into this world, that he’d be satisfied and find this a better place? why not right? technology has improved so much and quality of life has improved, cholera has passed, polio is passing the wars are over, new wars are being plotted secretly in every parliament. so this should be THE better place for a man from the 1930s right?
But do u know what that very man would say? Kids those days were better than kids now, hand-washed clothes are much cleaner than ur machine washed clothes. nothing is compared to farm-grown organic produce. what ur eating now is rubbish yada yada yada.
then u ask him why he asked for a better place then?
He says… because things move so slowly, i have to wait for days to go to foreign countries. there was no hygiene, everyone is falling sick, we were prejudiced (for whatever reason depending on his social standing)………
so no matter what the era is, what technology we are stuffed with and what kinda food goes into our gut, we are never satisfied. ask why? coz that’s how Man is made. Hollow on the inside, Man can’t resist himself from temptation, he does not have control over himself, he has a brain, knows how to use it, but refuses to. He’d rather listen to the Devil than to God, coz the Devil promises immediate fun. instant everything? yep, spot on!
If only all of us can wait, and understand and NOT tempted to change everything we can get our hands on, then there would be no need for God or the Devil.
Man is brought to Earth by God. Why? Coz Satan had to tempt Eve to tempt Adam to eat that God-forsaken forbidden fruit and all of us end up on this Earth - doomed for destruction. is it Adam’s fault? is it Eve’s fault? is it Satan’s fault? not exactly, it’s just that.
So if you can hold ur temptations and be controlled for just the rest of ur lives, and belief in the unseen God for once… you are promised heaven - The ULTIMATE BETTER PLACE. But how many of us would be willing to do so? Close to none.
According to some of you, im just a weirdo talking her talk. But one day, u’d realise…. that what u are doing isn’t exactly what u wanted to be questioned about. and where u end up isn’t exactly the better place you were looking for.
I’m not kidding. if u get it, i’m happy. alhamdulillah. then it’s up to u what u wanna do.
Remember, this 60 or so years on earth is a short temporary life; it’s all about what comes after. Good things happen to those who wait.
May God Bless all of you.
buzzing off…
~faNa
