MOMENTS OF CLARITY

Its amazing how so many things call for our attention. We are drawn and pulled apart by many things all sharing our time and energy.

Our friends, our jobs, the nuclear family, the extended ones, internet, movies, programs, projects, church activities and other miscellaneous commitment; all which either claim urgency or importance.

Yet not all of these are actually important.

I have seen a very career-driven woman leave her family unattended to with claims of important office work. As a counselor working with young adults I have heard things most of their parents may never know about their children.

I have seen a very "busy and hardworking" contractor father go away for months and the mother is a banker that comes very late at night from the office while their poor 8 years old was been initiated into lesbianism by the neighbour she stays with from 2pm when she returns back from school.

I have seen religious leader/clerics' child turn wayward and their wives either seriously unhappy or having her satisfaction from other secret rendez-vous. I have seen children totally spoilt by their parents throwing money at them as substitute for their time and attention. They are taken around on expensive foreign and local trips plus shopping to make up for lost time. Forgetting that a child not taught is a volcano going somewhere to erupt; a menace going somewhere to happen.

WHAT THEN IS REALLY IMPORTANT? 

MOMENTS OF CLARITY

I paused to wonder and to ask myself these questions...
What really is important in life?
How do i set my priorities?
What comes first? and what comes next?

These questions seem so invincible and evasive. Always slipping through our grasp like a phantom of matter. Do we think that our lives are so much in chaos, disarray and mixed up that our priorities seem so difficult to set?
Well, think again!

Its amazing how near-death, life-threatening and close-terminal occurrences bring us to a moment of clarity. In a short time everything becomes suddenly crystal clear and we see how the order of priority of things in our lives.

Its then you see that...
your job is fickle... it can continue without you
you have lost time... to teach your child properly
you lost chances... to tell and show your spouse how much you love him/her
your amassed wealth is just a tool... someone else will own
your great many certificates.... cannot be passed even to your first child
you made so much... and shared so little
you jeopardized and traded fulfilment for satisfaction
you exchanged destiny for designation
you lost grip on posterity to serve prosperity
you gave up eternal for temporal.

Moments of clarity show you what is really important.
The true importance of things in our lives cannot be judged by what the TV says or what people say.
Moments of clarity will teach you to follow your heart and not your head.
The heart of the matter is the matter of the heart!

Q.E.D