Having just passed midnight hour of Christmas eve, its officially Christmas here in Colombo. It has been raining constantly for the last seven days, like as if we are approaching another Noah's flood. Good one, many around here would say. Good one to wash away all the dirty politicians, they'd add. Yet, its the Season and I am in good spirits (or high on spirits – whichever I am not sure because those lovely spirits have clouded my judgement).
If we take the fortnight from here to 8th January, Sri Lanka will have a visit made by His Holiness, Pope Francis, and a presidential election. Quite a mouthful for a small island nation. And people are sick of politicians. Did I tell you that I am in good spirits because its the Season? Well, I don't hate anyone enough to hope they'd get washed off by this incessant rain into oblivion.
Lets take a biblical approach here. A president coerced by his international patrons to initiate what he owes them: The poor man is trapped between Scylla and Charybdis. Deliver the goods to his foreign Darth Vader masters – him & his whole family is unmasked and politically dead. Gaddafi style. Not deliver the goods to Darth Vader clan, they will freeze all his offshore accounts and fund a coup to oust him. His entire clan will die penniless AND Gaddafi style. What you get now is a perfect recipe for an early election, way way before the current mandate ends. What would anyone (YOU) do in such a situation? Holding the election now and extending mandate for 8 years to come – and then deliver goods to Masters of Dark is the only viable course of action. Any other course is simply suicidal.
Considering his grave predicament, and the fact that anyone & everyone here is also either partners of crime or guilty of wretched complicity, “stone pillaring” one man as the scapegoat does not sound fair to me. Now this is where Seasonal goodwill comes in. Its simply called Forgiveness.
Can we, despite of whatever we purport ourselves to be, can we actually forgive others? Solemnly accepting one has erred and forgiving others for trespasses are the hardest things to come by – now this goes for all people, myself included. Preaching forgiveness and humility is one thing. Practising those are surely a different kettle of fish. Slippery matters they are, just like fish. Even a well known phrase like Forgiven, not forgotten (hi Chrissie) can be interpreted as I know wht ya done biatch bt won't do you in for it now.
Why is this stuff on my Christmas blog? Because as age matures me, I have come to consider that hatred and despise for others actually do more harm to ourselves and those around us. Self-righteousness and inability to forgive others just wells up anger and contempt within ourselves, burning up from inside the little humanity we could muster in modern days. Actually, speaking in modern corporate productivity terms, its the most counterproductive load of garbage you can carry around.
So in this Christmas, let us all resolve to throw away this heavy burden, this poison, we carry around with us. Otherwise it will grow to engulf us completely, then those around us, and then our whole nation. Living in an embittered nation full of vengefulness and misguided by self-righteousness is surely no fun at all. Carpe diem (seize the day – a Latin idiot, no I mean an idiom) and let us resolve this Christmas to be rid of this bundle.
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins (Isaiah 43:25, KJV)
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL – JUST DON'T FORGET TO HAVE FUN
www.theforgivenessproject.com
http://www.aish.com/tp/i/sacks/286491731.html
If we take the fortnight from here to 8th January, Sri Lanka will have a visit made by His Holiness, Pope Francis, and a presidential election. Quite a mouthful for a small island nation. And people are sick of politicians. Did I tell you that I am in good spirits because its the Season? Well, I don't hate anyone enough to hope they'd get washed off by this incessant rain into oblivion.
Lets take a biblical approach here. A president coerced by his international patrons to initiate what he owes them: The poor man is trapped between Scylla and Charybdis. Deliver the goods to his foreign Darth Vader masters – him & his whole family is unmasked and politically dead. Gaddafi style. Not deliver the goods to Darth Vader clan, they will freeze all his offshore accounts and fund a coup to oust him. His entire clan will die penniless AND Gaddafi style. What you get now is a perfect recipe for an early election, way way before the current mandate ends. What would anyone (YOU) do in such a situation? Holding the election now and extending mandate for 8 years to come – and then deliver goods to Masters of Dark is the only viable course of action. Any other course is simply suicidal.
Considering his grave predicament, and the fact that anyone & everyone here is also either partners of crime or guilty of wretched complicity, “stone pillaring” one man as the scapegoat does not sound fair to me. Now this is where Seasonal goodwill comes in. Its simply called Forgiveness.
Can we, despite of whatever we purport ourselves to be, can we actually forgive others? Solemnly accepting one has erred and forgiving others for trespasses are the hardest things to come by – now this goes for all people, myself included. Preaching forgiveness and humility is one thing. Practising those are surely a different kettle of fish. Slippery matters they are, just like fish. Even a well known phrase like Forgiven, not forgotten (hi Chrissie) can be interpreted as I know wht ya done biatch bt won't do you in for it now.
Why is this stuff on my Christmas blog? Because as age matures me, I have come to consider that hatred and despise for others actually do more harm to ourselves and those around us. Self-righteousness and inability to forgive others just wells up anger and contempt within ourselves, burning up from inside the little humanity we could muster in modern days. Actually, speaking in modern corporate productivity terms, its the most counterproductive load of garbage you can carry around.
So in this Christmas, let us all resolve to throw away this heavy burden, this poison, we carry around with us. Otherwise it will grow to engulf us completely, then those around us, and then our whole nation. Living in an embittered nation full of vengefulness and misguided by self-righteousness is surely no fun at all. Carpe diem (seize the day – a Latin idiot, no I mean an idiom) and let us resolve this Christmas to be rid of this bundle.
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins (Isaiah 43:25, KJV)
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL – JUST DON'T FORGET TO HAVE FUN
www.theforgivenessproject.com
http://www.aish.com/tp/i/sacks/286491731.html
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