You and me, we're actually very much in common. We are all given the natural talent of appreciating the beauty of sceneries outside our window, we have the ability to enjoy breathing in that first lung-full of air every morning when we wake up from our dreams, we all have sophisticated taste buds that has the capability of lighting up the whole room whenever we have a big mouthful of the food we love, how marvelous it is that when certain things interacted with us, could create such wonderful magic.
College has been really good to me. The cafeteria at the pool side is serving well-fried hash browns and scrambled egg with coffee. I still find photography and singing irresistible which both gives me the tingling's despite their subjectivity . Studies are piling up but I've decided to get work started so that last minute late nights would not be as dreadful. Even though my pocket is rather empty, i was surprise to be be able to visit the cinema twice last month despite vowing to myself not to at the beginning of the month. And i found love for a new sport which gets you dirty and sweaty but still, very happy :)
We do share a lot of things in common. We like to relate with people, people that we are able to relate with especially. We enjoy good company, which makes you forget about time and the fact that class is 8am the next morning. We like to receive personal text messages that reminds you of people that love and care about you. Sometimes, we take interest and get excited as well over things that make people around us jump on their feet. How beautiful it is to love our family which we're born into and sealed with the knot of blood and love. Its an amazing thing that we humans can have so much to say and feel about the sparkles, fire-works, shooting stars and butterflies that we have for each other although all of that, are just a small fraction of how we can describe the chemistry we have for human beings.
To love or not to love. I am glad i grew out of it and understand why i should love others as much as i do for myself. What a great feeling it is to see great things in every person and to love them without expecting benefits, any hourly basis consulting fee or even appreciation. Maybe i should appreciate them even more for teaching me patience and character. Relating with people is such a great adventure. It is not limited to how you can describe about steam burgers or football playing, it gives you the tingling's way more than what the material things can. I'm glad i take joy in meeting people, which gushes unlimited vibrant emotions which are as indescribable as how i felt trying to avoid a chocolate-selling-fund-raising-friend in the canteen but ended up finding it a nice gift indeed. Ain't that indescribable? haha
The greatest thing in common about you and me is, though many times kept unsaid, we have deep hunger for many things we can't see. Assurance, peace, satisfaction, sense of belonging and acceptance to name a few. In fact these are all the really matters at the end of the pursuit of all there is to pursue. We crave for them and seek to find it in different places with different ways. We want to know that we are appreciated, honored, blameless and loved. Yes, we all want to be love disregard of how independent, strong and tough we can be, we want to have someone exclusive to love and be love by, we want to be full and not empty. But as much as we try to rule things out optimistically, why is there always that something missing? Like how buying insurance does not really insure your heart with true assurance.
After stepping into the 3rd year of college, days have been drastically different as the past two years were literally packed with different societies and juggling different positions in each of them. Yea it helped me in lots of ways be it personality developing, CV building and network widening. But i've decided to stopped all of them and be only an active member for a local church. I won't say church is not packed, but it just seem to have a higher significance. Why, or how you may ask? Well because apart from the first two wonderful encounter we can have with the materials and the marvelous people around us, there is actually another greater phase of experience. An experience that not only satisfies our body like how hash browns and pop corns at the cinema does, or like how interacting with people and lovers saturates our soul, this phase has the highest nature of satisfying ALL that was said about the needs and wants of us. Assurance, peace, love, faith, they grow and mature as we deepen our understanding in this amazing person that made all these accessible. Someone that has a radical love and the ability to make miracles in every difficult situation. And once a person knows how much he or she is loved and treasured, everything's different. To look back at the years like pages of a diary, the true satisfaction, joy and life about college is to come to know, understand and grow in knowing Jesus who was God and yet came to Earth and died for us so that as a result, anyone that would respond and just acknowledge of His priceless love in return will have no needs unfulfilled!
You and me, we're actually very much in common, we need the excitement and the variety of ice cream flavor to choose from (can you imagine Baskin Robbins selling just one flavor?) We need different people in our lives at different times to make life interesting. And yet we also need God in our lives because it is only through Him that we may enjoy and reap the "unseens" and find lasting satisfaction.However of all three needs and experiences we have in life, the latter is actually the greatest. Because we can have the best food and entertainment and have no joy; we can have the best lover and have no peace and assurance; but if we put God first above all these, life can be truly fulfilling and every second (including this very one as you read this) is worth enjoying :)
