“Happiness is over-rated. Nobody ever accomplished anything great while they were happy.” – www.glasbergen.com
Good Friday maybe most people's least favorite holiday, but not for me, I find it conveniently practical. The Gloria administration calendar gave us 12 freakin' days in a year to celebrate and waste our hard-earned money to nonsense jubilation so it just makes sense if we can offer this single day to reflect, repent and renew anything worth remembering. If not, just remain silent (or sleep the day off!).
I’ve been thinking why Good Friday relates to sadness. I get that it used to be when Christ was crucified to save the life of Christians. It can also be the bitterness for those unlucky ones who’s got work on this day. Or maybe it’s for those emotionally-binded people who cogitate about how they live and struggle just for the pursuit of a certain elusive thing called happiness. Well I’m just saying.
Cry Baby
Don’t we all remember the moment we first saw the world with our two teeny-tiny button-like baby eyes, we’re already crying our lungs out? Doctors say it’s to check if a new born is normal or there will be another person on earth destined to live miserably due to disability. Some parents just want to satisfy themselves while staring at their babies screaming unnervingly, feeling good they have produced something worthy.
I say the only reason we cried is to know we’re alive. Because in the absence of our sense of thought, we feel the only way to celebrate at that instance is to make such noise, not knowing that for the next 25 years we will soon get tired of crying.
Wander Years
Awkward is putting it under-rated, it’s the period of our lives where everything we do is a mistake. We’re confused: Are we cool enough to kiss someone we like? Do we look good wearing the same outfit as its celebrity endorser? Are we grown-up enough to make life-altering decisions? Do we follow our heart or mind when we love?
Questions like these cause bewilderment and lead to mistakes which turn to sadness. But who created these questions anyway? It’s not wrong to follow the pattern set by adults but it’s absolutely not right to be dictated from our own beliefs, especially if these are what make us happy. Remember, regret is indispensable.
The New Testament
Our vocabulary widened, that’s for sure, and one word that’s not on it is “simple”. We learned that “time” changes every “emotion” and “change” is a great factor in every “feeling”. We become obssessively in-control of our life now yet ironically we still feel emotionally damaged everytime. Like there’s always something missing in our jigsaw puzzle.
The adrenaline is still intact but you notice it’s not for the right reasons. You all of a sudden feel the rush of a ticking pressuring clock.
We get tired of working, we feel strained partying. Worst can come and we surrender loving. But if there’s one sure thing this 20 effin’ years has taught me, it’s that we will never ever give up on running, finding, attaining, chasing happiness.
Thank god it’s Good Friday. My time didn’t get trashed out on anything senseless.
