Monday, October 19, 2009
The government have just declared an emergency situation. An ordinary day had turned out to be something odd. The surrounding is getting darker and darker. Everyone is rushing to nowhere hoping they could flee from the indescribable heat. Picking every possible supplies they could carry along to their aimed spot. The people are yelling at each other, patience were lost leading to fights, barricades are set, vehicles jamming, cars honking, accidents everywhere, and an enormous fire from a distance can be seen. How could that possibly be? That out of the blue this ball of fire is emitting an intolerable suffering. The night is engulfing the day yet the scorching heat coming from the sun remains.
That was a scene from the movie Knowing which stars Nicolas Cage. I am not really a big fan of pirated movies and it disappoints me to see an unclear dvd copy. Yet my curiosity was captured by this one. What if you can actually predict the future? In this case, what if you just have figured out that the end of the world will be today, October 19, 2009 (as what the movie have showed)? What will you feel? Are you ready? I am not ready.The sky suddenly opens and reveals a gigantic ball-like structure. A very bright light comes from it as it opens. Could he be God the Father? What will I tell him? Will He let me come in before the earth will finally be perished? Or He'll tell me that I don't belong to the chosen ones? Honestly, I don't know and perhaps I do not really deserve to be one of them. I am a sinner.
As a child, I have sinned. Yes, I was attending Sunday Schools yet I was never been a good follower of Christ. I probably had attended merely because I wanted to see my crush way back in elementary or because of the snacks, the colorful easter eggs, the Christmas presentations and the field trips. I was a playmate you wouldn't want to have. I once planned out of the blue to trip somebody but she tripped right before I fulfilled my evil plan. When my grades dropped big time I tampered my report card so that my father won't beat me. I just wonder why my teacher wasn't able to recognize it?
As a young adult, I have sinned. I used to escape and lie from my father so I could come with my friends to outings. I hated those boys who teased me because of my mole and cursed them to vanish in the face of the earth. I overcharged my tuition fee and books so I can have extra money and spend extravagantly. Church was never my hang-out. I seldom give to beggars and was not a part of any socio-civic organizations that helps the needy.
As an adult, I have sinned. I jumped in the sack, I rolled in the hay. Fornication is the mortal sin that I am guilty of. In this world where premarital sex is near to acceptance, when almost everybody is doing the act, when you are old-fashioned if you hadn't tried it even once, when your peers laugh at you having discovered your still a virgin at the age of 21, I may gather raise of eyebrows but I still wish I never did it. I am a sinner and that reverberates in my whole entity.
The monstrous fire from the sun eats everything on its way. The skyscrapers disappeared in an instant and the tiniest crawling insect vanished in a blink of an eye. Ruthless as it is, it swallowed the blue planet not sparing the suffering humans.
