Sunday, 10 October 2021

Life Matters!

 


 

Living in a bio-centric culture

Where the Earth fills itself with the amazing nature

As a person, you are a unique creature.

 

Living out the driving purpose in the life span

Culling out the recent trends of the young fans

We are all solely immersed in the structural engagements.

 

The novel Corona is indeed unprecedented

It stuck down the human race drastically

There is a pause all over the world.

 

In spite, why do I begin to consider it a ‘Negative boon’.

Nothing to praise about it; No one to be blamed for it.

 

COVID unthinkably abducts the very human life

It devastates – deteriorates and deviated our life patterns.

A series of queries – unanswered;

The increase of the death toll – just a number.

 

20/20 dreams are shattered presently

But never unattainable in future.

The Positivity today is being in negativity.

 

Let’s commence new life with a zero year

A dire need of a change is certainly endorsed

A paradigm shift should evolve in the multitude.

 

Be ‘the Phoenician bird’ which obtains new life

By arising from the shackles of the past

COVID unbeatably transcends the whole universe

So do we!

 

Let us transcend our horizons beyond compare.

While counting the duration of the prolonged lockdown

We should be set to count the heuristic learnings too.

The paramount learning in the zero year is nothing but LIFE…

Life matters a lot.

 

This Pandemic teaches us

To be content with what we already have

Teaches us to embrace community life rather than individualistic culture.

Teaches us to recreate and converse with the family through On & Off LINE.

Teaches us to live today happily and healthily.

Thus, the teachings and learnings go on and on.

Things we have lost over the months will always be returned and brought back.

The life, if we lose to live purposely, will never be back.

That’s why, Life Matters!

Live once and leave a legacy.

 

P. Theophine Michael Sj

Birthday Talks!

 Birthday is

A day of an experience of life to one and

            an expression of love to others

A day of an affirmation of the affectionate and

            a bounty of the Almighty

A day of recognition of the one’s uniqueness and

            revitalization of the one’s self-worth

A day of sharing the good of minds and

            caring betwixt the better hearts

A day of being a hero around the world and

            beginning to be a lover of all round

A day of counting not only years one lived

            but also dears one loved.

On the whole,

It is a day of mutual celebration of life and love.

Life is originated by the means of love

Still, life generates love and

Love designs one’s very life

Love without life and

Life without love merely unthinkable

Life is, therefore, an abundance of love

In other words, Life is love!

P. Theophine Michael SJ

De-framing Freedom

 


 

To be or not to be

is emerged from being

Being is and not, likewise,

            acted out of free will

Will to act and will not to act

            designed by willingness

Such binaries delineate free acts

            i.e. freedom in and through the choices

Truly, no alternatives and choices construct

            what freedom to be perceived

Once acts – constructed, conditioned and contrived

            cannot be genuinely free and voluntary

That is why,

Freedom is not free at present

            on account of engaging ourselves with desirable conditions

Freedom must be rather impulsive than compulsive

            Experiential than explicable

When the conscience of beings intuits that

            born-free as every being in the universe

All our potentiality – possibility, actuality – finality,

            will be triggered and disclosed palpably

Freedom dwells in and instinctively impels one

            to act freely, willingly and appropriately

Being-free is to be interiorly experienced than

            Becoming-free from to be externally exercised

Thus, expressing freedom in mere words – inadequate

            It becomes meaningful when consciously lived out!

Freedom at hand! Freedom at last!!!


- Theo Sj