Spread the love

Life is fleeting. It can be likened to a bus where everyone gets off at different times.

You may have known a person all your life, but one day is all it takes to never see that person again.

This is one of the hardest things to deal with in this life, especially when it is someone very close to your heart. For the most part, this reality seems like fiction until we see it in action. Then we begin to understand more clearly the things that matter and the things that are of no consequence, knowing that one day we would get off the bus too.

We begin to view life from a different perspective. The academic certificates and wealth amassed at the very end would mean absolutely nothing. What matters is how many lives you are able to touch during your stay on this earth and in order to touch those lives; you need to learn to love unconditionally.

The idea of loving your neighbour may seem elementary because as children, many of us were made to recite the ultimate commandment countless times at Sunday school or where ever. That ideally should be fantastic but I think that it may have had the adverse effect of becoming dead letters in our hearts which can be recited at will yet lost in the physical. Yes we know the words, but are we putting the words into action?

It may be easier said than done but we need to start doing because time is running out. Every second we spend is a second less we have to stay on this earth. Therefore, we must use what time we have left judiciously. The key to achieving this is to show random acts of kindness and it all boils down to giving. The list of things which can be given is an inexhaustible one. Time, money, gifts, services, and a host of other things. It doesn’t have to be an earth-shattering sacrifice; what matters is that we give.

Naked we came and naked we shall return. All we can take along are our deeds both good and bad. Shed the heavy weight of earthly acquisitions and spread the love.

Have a great Sunday.

Oluwaseyi Lawal