PANTAY LANG

Ecclesiastes 2:15-16

Finally, I said to myself, “Being wise got me nowhere! The same thing will happen to me that happens to fools. Nothing makes sense. Wise or foolish, we all die and are soon forgotten.”

Fools, like the wise and the famous, will be overtaken by death. No matter how much you have been celebrated in life, you will also be forgotten. The pharaohs even built pyramids to immortalize themselves and yet how many of us know them? Great men and women who marched through history had monuments built, accomplished a lot and conquered empires, and yet how much do we really know about them? Another generation remembers you only for the tail end of your career.

Ano ang mahalaga? Ang maalala ka ng Dios. Pag ang tao ay nag-aagaw-buhay na, doon lang lalabas kung ano ang mahalaga. Wala namang namamatay na hinahanap ang mga trophies at awards, o mga titulo ng lupa, o mga recognition ng kanyang accomplishments.

You don’t have to be king or to have royal blood or to be a star. You can eat and drink, and if you find happiness in it, enjoy it because it’s available to so many people. Find satisfaction in your work, but don’t necessarily depend only on affirmation, acceptance, or palakpak ng iba para ka sumaya. Ang mahalaga, kahit nag-iisa ka, nananalamin ka, ay masaya ka sa ginagawa mo dahil alam mong may katuturan. Enjoy the simple pleasures of each day. Celebrate life and its ordinariness.