Christmas and what we are running after
As we clean up leftovers from the Christmas party, the thought gnaws—What is it really all about?
And we think of billionaires, really billionaires the likes of those appointed by Donald Trump, President-elect of the Divided States of America. They have all we had been hankering for— lots of money, lots of it.
We have also our local politicians who had been in political power since time immemorial, or since the time we could remember. With whatever money they had amassed, mostly through corrupt ways, they are still looking for something. Usually for more power or more wealth. But there will always be somebody more powerful, or a lot more richer. But they keep on going. Desiring for more.
Then there is sex. So many have the illusion it will give us satisfaction. Yet we have seen the likes of Zsa Zsa Gabor who married 9 times and Elizabeth Taylor who married eight times, twice to the same man, Richard Burton. These two world famous women, aside from the multiple marriage, have something in common. They both landed in jail for slapping a policeman.
They did not find satisfaction in the sex with multiple partners, much less matrimonial bliss.
For some characters who never had what it took to run after these worldly things, they hid behind hallucinatory stuff like shabu, alcoholic beverages, and smoking. It is hiding from the real world in the comforts of hallucination.
All of these show we are running after something. Something that will give us satisfaction. We need not look any further.
It had been there for thousands of years. Jesus Christ showed us how to get there. It is by giving up everything. He was poor, was born really poor. He had to show us how it was to get born in a barn. He could have been born in a first class hotel or hospital. But He had to show us. It was, and still is, by giving up everything— by totally surrendering to the Almighty— that we could have everything—in heaven.**
