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HUMAN LIFE IS WORTH LIVING WITH TRUTH BEAUTY AND GOODNESS
In my last 40 years of my professional and work life and some 20 years of retired living I have almost every day had come across people who had changed their mannerisms, guise and life style like the chameleons change their colors with the varying reflection of lights or to suit their moods.
Many people believe that the chameleons change colors to disguise themselves and hide from predators. Camouflage is thus only a secondary reason why most chameleons change their colors but we human beings seem to have a variety of reasons to do so.
Firstly, there were those people I noticed who once walked so boastfully and moved arrogantly with self conceit like the lions and tigers with such pride however, even they too at times had to depend on others in order to move independently and longed to get the needed support and assistance of others.
Then, I saw many others whose eyes and looks were so bright yet so dangerous and vicious that made others apprehensive, totally frightful and gave a lot of phobia however, I noticed that even those looks and eyes began shedding tears like it was raining heavily.
Then, I found people who had such strong and powerful hands and arms that they could shatter large rocks and cut large trees however, a time came when the same arms and hands became so week and lethargic that they too began trembling, oscillating and vibrating like the dry leaves of an old dry tree.
There were occasions when I also noticed the plight of those great orators and fluent speakers who had the loud and roaring voice that could thunder like the lightening and mesmerize their entire audience and yet when time came even their lips had the greatest locks that precluded them from uttering any clear words and sounds.
Of course, I noticed the gradual deterioration of the youthfulness, juvenility, health, wealth and the energies of people that were bestowed by the blessings of nature upon them on this earth however, when the time came I noticed the sure arrival of old age, lifelessness, regrets and death for them as well.
People have asked me many questions relating to these prevailing conditions and predicaments that are faced by us. What have all these taught us and made us wake up from our slumbers to realize in the end, dear friends?
Let us not show off and prance, lord it over, act like a peacock, give ourselves weak airs and hold false pride upon our living today and present life because in the stream of time I have noticed that the best and the greatest performers of one time or another are forced down and fail by circumstances and situations beyond their control and are compelled to become totally helpless.
Therefore, if at all possible let us try our best to fill the lives of our loved ones with rich blessings, unconditional love and extreme happiness. In fact I have noticed within my life that to sincerely and honestly display and express these tender loving and kinder human feelings are indeed lot more difficult than making people suffer in pain and giving them sorrow, calamity, persecution and misery.
November 2018
This was the Home that I was allocated to live with my family on my posting as the Principal of a rural school in 1965.