By Jan Vicente B. Pekas
A single day represents many opportunities to do good for our fellow men. Of course, along with them will always be the trials and tribulations. And should they be there, then reward and progress will also be waiting. Depending on how the day is going, an ordinary Tuesday will go by faster than we would want it too. Or the sluggish movement of time will revel at the sweat and hard work a single day demands.
Nevertheless, whether we are having a good day or bad, the opportunities to do good always appear. A simple act of kindness can help the day get better. Or our own feeling of regret would cloud a perfectly sunny morning.
To go to bed at night without a single regret of the day weighing down on our chest is a very fulfilling and rare moment. When the question of “What if?” does not haunt us or become a nightmare and a feeling of contentment warms the weary soul.
Taking its time with all the wounds of a tired heart, the soul, nevertheless, will carry on, for it is far stronger than the physical body. After a good night’s sleep, a new day will always greet us. Though we never know when that will end, we get up and keep on walking, grasp the hand of life and all the surprises that it hides.
From sun up to sun down, life these days keep on getting faster. As a result many of us find it hard to keep up with all that is coming down. And when you feel like life is leaving you behind, to empathize with others you meet on the street will seem pointless. No one volunteers to be alone and we all try our best to keep up with friends and family.
Still wherever we may be in life, no matter how we feel of being behind others, the value and duty of doing good remains in all of us no matter how blinded we are from grey clouds around a solemn day.
From this life and beyond, kindness will remain to be an integral part of character. In our day to day activities, when resentment and frustrations prove to be too much to handle, having the strength of shielding others from these will always be stronger than the impudence of throwing these all to a stranger. Though we don’t always have the courage to choose the more noble of the choices, to do good to others and to ourselves.
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