TAKE A RIDE ON THE WILD SIDE

Well…in another few hours the whole world would have experienced another year. The year end parties seem to have lost its gloss which kinda makes me happy knowing that the decadent and selfish country we come from has been forced to notice that there are less fortunate folks around us. People who don’t have it good anytime of the year. For some the new year is just another 365 days of misery, hunger, disease and depravation. Some folks don’t even have an account of time itself, maybe because time is the arrival of something bad for these people. For some of us the light of day or the morning birds call is time for us to get our sorry rear ends out of bed and off to work…and for some it might be the start of some kinda physical torture, rape or abuse… taking a 20km walk for a clean pail of water…dodging bullets from enemy snipers…or really being persecuted for religious beliefs. No folks this not decades ago…this is happening to us right now. And if you were not aware of it then wake the fuck up and smell the foul stench in the air.

I don’t seem to get it….all the suffering and scars left by the outbreak of SARS seems to have disappeared completely…like an aging movie star who does not want to reveal any signs of aging…we as a society have given ourselves an extreme makeover,…surgically removed the scars through feel good crap like small movies depicting our courage as a country….giving notice to nurses for services rendered, still very much overworked and underpaid…all part and parcel of government propaganda I’m very sure of that. , but we all know what you cover on the outside cannot really remove the ugliness on the inside. The wrinkles and scars tend to win in the long run. Country was going back into it feel good and decadent ways when we are reminded once again we are nothing. For all the brains, awards, rankings, research, money we have and not even lee kwan yew would gain the respect of Mother Nature….we were not hit by anything physical this time…but don’t expect anything, cause whether we like it or not we are in control of nothing…now how do you like that!!?

I think our country has this idea that as long as we do our part we all have a clear conscience and we are good people….well most of us do. How are we really affected by pain and sorrow? Do we feel a need to help just because we are moved by a sad picture? What if we did not read newspapers or have the television to help us feel? Do we inform ourselves to be educated about places that are already needy…or do we just wait for the next calamity?

Is it fair for me to keep saying that we are a selfish nation when we have a duty to our own? Try coming from a country where we all insist on having cars when we have a perfectly good public transportation system….some of us even have two cars. Everything’s a competition. The rich are just plain freakin rich and the poor just have houses to show that we don’t have beggars on the streets. Everything is taught here from graciousness to patriotism so I don’t really know how to feel when a complete stranger is nice to me…and I’m not just saying that. It never really happens anyway. So how can a selfish country be so generous…we only give because others give…we live in a very asian culture where if we don’t give then people will look at us kinda funny and say things about us,…God forbid we would not want that to happen would we! I’m not saying once again that all of us work this way…but I’ll bet all the money I have that most of us function in this way. Call me cynical and unforgiving but I say it like it is…if you can’t swallow it then vomit it out and continue pretending that you’re a nice person.

The least of my Lamenting .

I wish the rest of the world would share in my joys of being very much Blessed this whole year even though it is so very hard at times. Knowing that everyday goes by bad or good only by the Grace and mercy of God, I’m not a mean person…I don’t wish hard lessons on the people of our country through calamity or suffering. I just wish people would educate themselves better about what life should really be about. I wish I could really see the goodness of people even during times of clam and peace.

I do look forward to next year. Thoughts of further travels and the pursuit of deeper relationships both with God and friends fill’s my mind with joy and set’s my heart racing away.

I hope it’s the same for those of you that continue to read my Blog.
God bless. Ride safe.