since everybody asks me why i started this thread. i shall
tell you guys why.
recently, one of my colleague passed away and left behind 2 kids
who are 4 years and 2 years old. she converted to christian few
years ago against her mother's wish. her mother was a taoist and
uneducated. her reason was christianity does not teach longevity
and leave everything to god's will.
my colleague had cancer and i heard from my other
colleagues her mother still blamed her newly converted
religion and her husband for converting her on her last breath in
bed. when we attended her wake, i heard from her siblings that her
mother refused to attend her wake.
her earlier remarks (before my colleague had cancer) strike
me whether religion and life span is it co-related. afterall she is
not educated (not that i look down on her), based on what she said
that ( no statistics to show).
at her wake, her 2 young kids did not seem to know their mum
had died, still playing catching happily and
even went to their mum's coffin to say goodnight to her.
this is really heart breaking. thus, i have been thinking of
what the old lady said and wanted to find out whether religions
teach about longevity.
Let me explain to you, it is simple really. The world we live,
we have to get sick and get old. as a human being, there is every
chance you will contract a serious deadly diseases like cancer and
many others during your lifetime. this is unavoidable. this tells
you how fragile our life is. besides being struck down by a
diseases, there is every chance we might get involved in accidents
or murdered by criminals. we may take for granted that we may live
till old age, but who knows when the car your are travelling, or
horrors of horrors, the plan you are taking crashed. what I can
tell you is this, this is life.
