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VIEWPOINT -
JAMAL LAOUDI
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 Shut down your belief system,
And tag along for a moment.
What is life?
One day, you are born.
Another day, you are no more.
How many will remember you?
One? Few tens? Few hundreds? Few thousands? More?
To what degree is that up to you?
For how long will you be remembered?
A Generation? Two? Many?
To what degree is that up to you?
Did you ask to be here?
Did you choose the time?
What if you did?
What would you want to change?
Happiness, what is it?
A state of mind? A chemical equation maybe at equilibrium?
Some live long,
Others leave too soon.
There can be no sense in logic.
When will you depart?
How long would you want to stick around?
You have lived so long your hearing is gone.
You cannot see well anymore.
You can neither talk nor walk right.
You are no longer independent.
What would you wish for?
When all is said and done,
Good goes one way and evil goes another.
Then what? Does it end there?
Who are you?
How much of you is nature?
How much of you is nurture?
Truth, what is it? Do you seek it?
Are you free or do you feel chained?
When you wonder why ask?
Ask why not?
Love life and people, and enjoy your here and your now.
Do good, give, forgive, and care.
Donate of your material; more importantly of yourself.
You can restart your belief system back on now.
Jamal Laoudi
2008
In memory of a departed!
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