Fuddled Thinking | Saturday, March 07, 2009
It's been a really long while since I've been on this blog. I feel really tired from all the things that have gone on, and I haven't been getting any breaks from work thus far. I guess the days where I had no shows for weeks on end were luxuries... This time it's been show after show after show, wait after wait after wait. If they talk about having no life, then I guess this must be it. To superiors in the office, treat your employees like human beings. Don't waste their time because you never know when they might get the ability to waste yours. Don't let someone wait 2 hours for nothing when you can avoid it, just to save your own skin. It's not ethical, and it's not doing yourself a favour in any case. I wonder what it takes to be a good uncompromising boss. What does it take to not use your authority, to not treat your employees like how you used to be treated in the past while you were getting to that position? Life goes in circles; it takes one honourable man to stop the cycle: One man who wants to make a change, who truly doesn't want the cycle to happen ever again, to make that. Corruptibility of motives is correlated to a man's perception of compromise... And perhaps a man's desire to take it far down the road. How do you finish well what you started well? What is finishing well? Is it a satisfaction of looking back or a satisfaction from looking ahead? They say change is coming and change is already here. What changes? What doesn't? What won't? Some changes take generations, and some changes come from breaking habits. Habits are hard to break, but some are broken because we outgrow them. Will we outgrow change? Have we outgrown it somehow? The world is changing, but Man stays the same. Man changes the world because Man stays the same: the desire to be different, the desire to create, the desire for the betterment of human lives, but ultimately staggered by overwhelming differences in philosophies, to become corrupted in the eyes of many. It's difficult to finish well. Very difficult. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * One thing I know that I have found. Man changes the world, but is never satisfied. Man changes his ideas with the purpose of being different but somehow it fades into simplicity after a while. At the end of it all, it looks like Man runs on creative energies... To feed his hunger for newness of life. And yet we must pursue change! To better ourselves in the face of morphing realities, and to reach out to those who got caught up in the winds of change... And who sometimes get shredded in the winds. Man was ultimately created in the image of God. We desire to create, and we desire to love, above the sin that runs our world. Our span for creativity knows no bounds. However our span for creativity is limited by the one thing that we cannot ever grasp: Quantity. God created out of nothing; Man created out of what God put in place. God created out of His characteristic of love. God changed the world because He loves us. And He sure hasn't changed the way He's been thinking. I'm sure you all know, a perfect world with imperfect Mankind eventually turns corrupted again. God knows what we're going through. And He's wise enough not to change our circumstances because without the wisdom we get from these tough times, we'd just make our circumstances implode on us. Eve and Adam ate from that tree because of their innate desire to create... change. We're made in the image of God... And God is a creator. I think I understand... That God didn't want to remove our capability to create because of the absolute delight in creation. The one thing He wouldn't change in us is our intellectual curiousity... If not our likeness in Him and our joy of being in such a world would be dashed to the ground. We were fated to destroy our world, from the very beginning, because of our desire to create, but our disability to create out of nothing. We have to take something out of the world to create something new. (a simple way to understand it is this: we are creations and creations cannot create like their creator) The whole irony of it all is that out of all this mayhem comes another characteristic that defies the rest of the world. It's love. And we need each other. It's a messed up world, and we're messed up people, because of our desire to be different and renewed. But if we look to nature and the heavens and admit there is a God, then why aren't we turning to this creator to be complete? We were created by Him, but not to be equal with Him... Therefore logically we need Him so much... That is what I understand by the vacuum in our hearts that needs to be filled by God. We can be renewed by Him... We need to be. Because as creations we are in ourselves incomplete... Whereas in God, the one who created us, there is completion. One thing I know that I have found. Man is finite. Therefore Man's creations are flawed. But God. Here's a different thing altogether. You and I are miracles in themselves. But without God, an obsolete miracle. Because while Man is ever-changing, God is never changing. THAT is one reason why we need HIm so much.
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