Mind Boggling
By Njeri Mucheru-Oyatta
Chapter 65
A socialist is someone who knows the truth about life. A truth which is contained in the following words:-
1. In the absence of someone to share it with, LIFE and MONEY become inconsequential;
2. Therefore, DO NOT take ANYONE for granted;
3. LOVE your neighbour as you love yourself;
4. Because that IS ALL that will matter when you die.
A capitalist does not know this simple truth about life.
When a capitalist dies, s/he goes to a place where there is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH MONEY and SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MANY MATERIAL POSSESSIONS and NOONE to stop them from grabbing it all for themselves.
Immediately, the capitalist becomes delirious with the thought that ALL THAT MONEY AND ALL THOSE THINGS belong to him/ her and flops back to relax from all the hard work it took him/her during his/her lifetime to acquire them.
After a while s/he begins to look around slowly coming to the realization that as much as there is no-one around to stop him/her from doing WHATEVER s/he wants to do with the money and material things, there is also no-one to SHARE them with. S/he then looks at ALL the money and ALL the material things and comes to a realization of the TRUTH:
THAT IN THE ABSENCE OF SOMEONE TO SHARE IT WITH, LIFE AND MONEY BECOME INCONSEQUENTIAL.
There and then at that point in time, the capitalist gains the knowledge that s/he would give ANYTHING; s/he would give ALL THAT MONEY AND ALL THOSE MATERIAL THINGS just to have ONE person to talk to or even to fight with!
Something else slowly dawns on him/her, something even more painful to bear:-
THAT ALL THAT MONEY AND ALL THOSE MATERIAL THINGS can NEVER create life.
And s/he begins to understand that IN FACT, there is a GOD! God being the one who created him/her and the others s/he enjoyed taking for granted during his/her life time. And now, in that hell-hole of money and material possessions, God is not there, to give him/her someone to love and share his/her valued possessions with. In life, the capitalist did not believe in God and thought that capitalism was all that mattered.
In the fullness of time, the money and material things begin to repulse the capitalist and the capitalist decides that s/he would RATHER DIE than live alone with ALL THAT MONEY AND ALL THOSE MATERIAL THINGS. But alas! S/he is ALREADY DEAD! And now s/he has to live with that money and those material possessions ALL ALONE FOR THE REST OF HIS/HER LIFE!
Imagine if right now, this moment, EVERYONE in the world disappeared from sight and left you ALONE. Would that make you happy? What would you not be willing to give to have those people back?
And do not cheat yourself that just one or two people would be enough. No, variety is the spice of life. Two heads are better than one. The more the merrier. And all of us, the trillions that we are in this world, cannot survive without each other. We need people to do the farming, to fly the planes, to build the houses, to argue the court cases, to carve the sculptures, to wash the dishes, to do everything that needs to be done to keep the world running. You cannot do everything alone!
Its all or nothing. Look at your body, can any part of you be cut off from the rest of you and still survive by itself? No! And any part of you that is not there has a vital function and without it, life can NEVER be complete. Until all the parts have been made whole and put together, you will always be missing something and looking around for it.
Is it not wonderful and comforting to know that you are NOT ALONE in this world? So why do you take your fellow men and women for granted? And why can you not spare a minute of your time to thank God for giving you ALL THESE WONDERFUL BEAUTIFUL DIFFERENT PEOPLE to share your life with? Why are you not interested in the suffering of your fellow men and women?
KNOW THIS NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. When you die, all that will matter is the love you gave to your neighbour.
Picture this, a child is being born into this world, its mother is in distress, as soon as the child pops out of its mother’s womb, its mother dies. And there is no-one to receive that child into the world. Sadness cannot begin to describe the sight of such a situation.
LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR AS YOU LOVE YOURSELF, so that when you are born into death, you will have someone to receive you into eternal life.
By Njeri Mucheru-Oyatta
Chapter 65
A socialist is someone who knows the truth about life. A truth which is contained in the following words:-
1. In the absence of someone to share it with, LIFE and MONEY become inconsequential;
2. Therefore, DO NOT take ANYONE for granted;
3. LOVE your neighbour as you love yourself;
4. Because that IS ALL that will matter when you die.
A capitalist does not know this simple truth about life.
When a capitalist dies, s/he goes to a place where there is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH MONEY and SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MANY MATERIAL POSSESSIONS and NOONE to stop them from grabbing it all for themselves.
Immediately, the capitalist becomes delirious with the thought that ALL THAT MONEY AND ALL THOSE THINGS belong to him/ her and flops back to relax from all the hard work it took him/her during his/her lifetime to acquire them.
After a while s/he begins to look around slowly coming to the realization that as much as there is no-one around to stop him/her from doing WHATEVER s/he wants to do with the money and material things, there is also no-one to SHARE them with. S/he then looks at ALL the money and ALL the material things and comes to a realization of the TRUTH:
THAT IN THE ABSENCE OF SOMEONE TO SHARE IT WITH, LIFE AND MONEY BECOME INCONSEQUENTIAL.
There and then at that point in time, the capitalist gains the knowledge that s/he would give ANYTHING; s/he would give ALL THAT MONEY AND ALL THOSE MATERIAL THINGS just to have ONE person to talk to or even to fight with!
Something else slowly dawns on him/her, something even more painful to bear:-
THAT ALL THAT MONEY AND ALL THOSE MATERIAL THINGS can NEVER create life.
And s/he begins to understand that IN FACT, there is a GOD! God being the one who created him/her and the others s/he enjoyed taking for granted during his/her life time. And now, in that hell-hole of money and material possessions, God is not there, to give him/her someone to love and share his/her valued possessions with. In life, the capitalist did not believe in God and thought that capitalism was all that mattered.
In the fullness of time, the money and material things begin to repulse the capitalist and the capitalist decides that s/he would RATHER DIE than live alone with ALL THAT MONEY AND ALL THOSE MATERIAL THINGS. But alas! S/he is ALREADY DEAD! And now s/he has to live with that money and those material possessions ALL ALONE FOR THE REST OF HIS/HER LIFE!
Imagine if right now, this moment, EVERYONE in the world disappeared from sight and left you ALONE. Would that make you happy? What would you not be willing to give to have those people back?
And do not cheat yourself that just one or two people would be enough. No, variety is the spice of life. Two heads are better than one. The more the merrier. And all of us, the trillions that we are in this world, cannot survive without each other. We need people to do the farming, to fly the planes, to build the houses, to argue the court cases, to carve the sculptures, to wash the dishes, to do everything that needs to be done to keep the world running. You cannot do everything alone!
Its all or nothing. Look at your body, can any part of you be cut off from the rest of you and still survive by itself? No! And any part of you that is not there has a vital function and without it, life can NEVER be complete. Until all the parts have been made whole and put together, you will always be missing something and looking around for it.
Is it not wonderful and comforting to know that you are NOT ALONE in this world? So why do you take your fellow men and women for granted? And why can you not spare a minute of your time to thank God for giving you ALL THESE WONDERFUL BEAUTIFUL DIFFERENT PEOPLE to share your life with? Why are you not interested in the suffering of your fellow men and women?
KNOW THIS NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. When you die, all that will matter is the love you gave to your neighbour.
Picture this, a child is being born into this world, its mother is in distress, as soon as the child pops out of its mother’s womb, its mother dies. And there is no-one to receive that child into the world. Sadness cannot begin to describe the sight of such a situation.
LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR AS YOU LOVE YOURSELF, so that when you are born into death, you will have someone to receive you into eternal life.
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