World

The world is like a high-interest bank- the bank tells you that if you borrow the money, you will be able to buy your new jacuzzi bathtub, holiday villa and car. However, once you borrow and buy, you realise that you aren't enjoying your purchases because you're too busy working around the clock to pay back the debt and interest.

The world pretty much does the same. The world tells us that we won't survive without giving in to the material hype or achieving a certain level of material assets- that degree, this job, such an income. The list goes on. We will only be able to quench our spiritual thirst if we sort out the so-called essential material aspects of life first. So we start, we succumb, we work and struggle to "survive". But for what? In the end, this survival is pointless because one is then in an endless cycle to merely "survive" and nothing else. Before you know it, the world has surrounded you with a never-ending list of must-do's that will, in themselves, take a lifetime. 

Vicious cycle or what? But let us not be pessimists- if this is a test, then there must undoubtedly be an answer, a solution to this problem, somewhere. Perhaps I will post it in my next entry.