Merry Christmas~

Is it cliché of me to start an entry with “The older I get…”? It seems that the older I get, the more often my reflection comes down to “The older I get, the more I come to realise XYZ”. So here we go for today…

The older I get, the more important it is for me to spend days such as Christmas, New Year, Easter… etc. with people I love. Maybe I have reached an age where I come to realise that there is really not much else to life, there is really not much else to a year, and there is really not much else in the world. Nothing material lasts, not that anything intangible lasts either. These days nothing of anything lasts forever. We live in this open-ended space-in-time where nothing is for certain. The only thing that makes life worth living is those moments we live. They are moments of happiness, anger, fear, gratitude… etc. – they are an end on its own. Being a Buddhist I value the happy and the sad, because they make life what it is.

Humans, we are not self-creation. We sustain in a social setting with complex interactions that are beyond systematic theories of ‘cause and effect’, because we are intelligent enough to seek for that kind of luxury.

This Christmas I just want to say:

Treat your loved ones well

Appreciate every moment you have together

Enjoy and be safe

Have a merry Christmas =)