Life's Remains....

I once met an old friend. We haven't talked to each other for so long, we found that we no longer have anything in common. We keep lapsing into moments of silence in between topics on the weather, and the high cost of living and politics. Then, after a long silence, and looking into spaces behind each other, he asked (still looking into nothing) if I believe in God. I said, of course, (duh!).... Do you? I asked, just to carry on the conversation. He, did not answer right away.....  After, a long pause, so long that I thought he did not hear my reciprocating question. I almost repeated the question, when he blurted out, "I'm not sure". Before, I continue my recollection, I must clarify that my friend is a Malay man. He said, that he thinks there is a God, but, he just do not think that there is a heaven or hell. He said, if he's been good all his life, if he is not adulterous, and if he is poor on this earth, why would he want to die and go to heaven and be a...

I wish I don't have to eat, or go to the toilet or even have sex. These activities take a lot of time and energy. And, it causes a lot of anxieties. What to eat? Where to eat? Did I eat too much? And, in the middle of doing something, you get the urge to go to the toilet. It doesn't matter if it's big or small... you need to finish this thing you are doing and your body is telling you, "I NEED TO GO!!!!" The same with sex. When you want it, she doesn't, and when she wants it you don't... and, sometime when we end up doing it, you get a feeling she was just obliging you... These are very basic functions. Which probably what inspired Darwin to come up with his Theory of Evolution. We, having been bestowed self awareness, have turned the simple satisfaction of theses basic needs into obscene pleasures. It is not enough to just eat, we need to embellish our food, we need our food not only to taste good, but it must look good too. In the end we have to go...