A Journey

A Thousand Promises A thousand promises have been uttered, But yet all promises have been altered. The promises are the empty talk, The true destiny balk. Each new year, the thousand promises have been made, But after few days, often forgotten their shades. The promises have been dumped into the bin, And human fall into daily routine spin. Then, human blame God for their gluttony, and live their lives in agony. They ask God's justice, But their lust has been enticed. When they pray, Their mouth foul with their prey. Their hearts are a bitter spring, Their words are just barren chanting. When their worship, The true God has been skipped. They worship their lusts, They bend everything that is just. O how human eat their fellow, Squash the meek like marshmallow. The strongest will rule, While the rest must follow like a mule. They follow their ambitions, Desire of exhibitions. Running daily in a rat race, Eating crumbs in a maze. The sins tint the ...

It's been 2 months since my uncle passed away. I wrote this line: "Live fully, life is precious" in my Facebook status when my uncle had just gone. Before he died, I saw him dying. He had to struggle just to take a breath, he had to lift himself up just for breathing. Suddenly, the mortality of human hit me on my face. I saw him as a successful man. He had a huge mansion that he called as his house. He had bank deposit and successful business. He had a family of five children and beautiful wife, also grandchildren. However, I found that all that materials was useless for him when he tried to survive with every breath that he took. Every single breath was more precious than anything when he tried to hold on his life in the mortal vessel. Seeing him like that made me to review again some of my views on life. One of them is the definition of success. What is a success? The world has offered us many beautiful pictures of successful life. Some say that a success is having ...