Of Prophectic Implications and a Baby Picture..
I got out of bed today feeling totally irresponsible. The book I was reading described a teenager whose room was a complete mess. Any attempt to bring to task this teenager was met with utter defiance.I suppose being a teenager gives you the privilege or even right to be blatantly irresponsible and openly defiant about it.
My room is in a complete mess too. The problem is, I am not exactly a teenager anymore, I am all of 23 years old.My books are all over and notes from the previous semesters cover the ground I walk on.Not to mention the worn T-shirts and already watched DVDS. So yes, having good reason to feel irresponsible, my thoughts through my bath and lunch were about how I wasnt doing enough to improve myself, academically, physically or spiritually. Thoughts about some people I know and their almost perfectly regulated high achieving lives, left me pretty much disgruntled about the status quo. I could be regularly running,taking a driving licence, making more money, being more in tune with my school work..etc.
My thoughts were pretty much progressing in this way, till late afternoon, when I was showing my baby pictures to a friend. There was this particular photo, I must have been a year old or so, with me sitting on a rattan chair of sorts. This happens to be my friend's favourite picture, because apparently I was smiling cheekily. When I took a closer look to see just how a child that young could be cheeky,I noticed a poster just behind and above the chair.It showed a picture of a smiling little girl with blond hair, holding a kitten in her arms. It read, " To be faithful in little things is a big thing" I am christian. I checked on an online bible site and found, "Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things" , in Matthew 25:14-30. I was born Hindu and as of a year of age and for many years after that till up to my adolescense, I remained Hindu. The caption on the poster seems to be a condensed version of this bible verse and that is rather uncanny when I look at it now. I am a rather ambitious man. To have big plans but do nothing about it will only leave one disgruntled.Looking at that poster in my picture, I felt a sense of destiny and was rather encouraged. I could start being responsible with small things in my life, and eventually I might end up a responsible person.
Which probably means, I could start with my room. Which is in a complete mess. A mess.I have to clean up the mess. Me cleaning up the mess...the prophectic implications of the poster have well sunk in..the practical implications though..are another story..
I got out of bed today feeling totally irresponsible. The book I was reading described a teenager whose room was a complete mess. Any attempt to bring to task this teenager was met with utter defiance.I suppose being a teenager gives you the privilege or even right to be blatantly irresponsible and openly defiant about it.
My room is in a complete mess too. The problem is, I am not exactly a teenager anymore, I am all of 23 years old.My books are all over and notes from the previous semesters cover the ground I walk on.Not to mention the worn T-shirts and already watched DVDS. So yes, having good reason to feel irresponsible, my thoughts through my bath and lunch were about how I wasnt doing enough to improve myself, academically, physically or spiritually. Thoughts about some people I know and their almost perfectly regulated high achieving lives, left me pretty much disgruntled about the status quo. I could be regularly running,taking a driving licence, making more money, being more in tune with my school work..etc.
My thoughts were pretty much progressing in this way, till late afternoon, when I was showing my baby pictures to a friend. There was this particular photo, I must have been a year old or so, with me sitting on a rattan chair of sorts. This happens to be my friend's favourite picture, because apparently I was smiling cheekily. When I took a closer look to see just how a child that young could be cheeky,I noticed a poster just behind and above the chair.It showed a picture of a smiling little girl with blond hair, holding a kitten in her arms. It read, " To be faithful in little things is a big thing" I am christian. I checked on an online bible site and found, "Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things" , in Matthew 25:14-30. I was born Hindu and as of a year of age and for many years after that till up to my adolescense, I remained Hindu. The caption on the poster seems to be a condensed version of this bible verse and that is rather uncanny when I look at it now. I am a rather ambitious man. To have big plans but do nothing about it will only leave one disgruntled.Looking at that poster in my picture, I felt a sense of destiny and was rather encouraged. I could start being responsible with small things in my life, and eventually I might end up a responsible person.
Which probably means, I could start with my room. Which is in a complete mess. A mess.I have to clean up the mess. Me cleaning up the mess...the prophectic implications of the poster have well sunk in..the practical implications though..are another story..
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