Why all the hate?

World peace, what a laughable matter! When will we be able to achieve something this tantamount? Well, we will be able to achieve world peace when one nation does not invade another nation based on a pretext. We will be able to achieve world peace when the phrase, "an eye for an eye," no longer emerges to our minds when somebody committed a hurtful act upon us. We will be able to achieve world peace when, instead of retaliation, we can control ourselves to forgive and forget whatever misdeed others have done to us. There is a hope for world peace when we can shed vengeance, hate, greed, selfishness, and embrace forgiveness, sharing, and a philanthropic approach toward resolving conflicts. There is a hope for world peace when a sale on any store would not attract a flock of mindless consumers. This is especially true for Wal-Mart, where "everyday has the lowest price, guaranteed!" Better yet, there will be world peace when conglomerates and corporations no longer mold, shape and define our lives and souls.

I do not know whether world peace is ever achievable, since in doing so we have to make some drastic changes to the fundamental human behavior and interaction. Maybe it is meant to be unreachable. Maybe it is meant to be like this where lives perish everyday due to ongoing world conflicts, and national and local misfortunes. Maybe it is God's will for humans to be hateful of each other, to be intolerant of the misdeeds of others. Maybe it is God's will for the victim to enjoy the punishment imposed on the perpetrator by the governing authority. Until we realize how perverted we are to retaliate and cause other people to suffer under our own unforgiving heart, the world will be under the shroud of this looming hate. Why all the hate? Why do we see satisfaction in retaliation? Why couldn't we be brothers and sisters until the Kingdom come? To appease ourselves is no longer enough. What has to be done needs to be done in an outreach fashion, and that would not start until you say, "brother, you made my day," to a perfect stranger!

Peace, everyone!

Goodbye, the beatiful, shiny, deadly stars

I would have never imagined this fateful relationship would go this far, be this deadly, this costly, and this detrimental to me, myself, and my dearest friends and family. I would have never imagine it would come to this, that is the physical and geographical separation from you, albeit still mentally attached. How did it come to this? How could it come to this? I don't know, and I will probably never know, since what have happened were all done unconsciously and unintentionally. I would have never imagined it would be this strong, this compulsive, even after when you said NO. I guess this is what it would normally occur when someone started this late in life, without experience and with a world passing him by in a blink of an eye.

You are truly the beautiful, shiny, and deadly stars. You are truly the Yun Xing (雲星 in Chinese calligraphy.) One which is out of the grasp of many dreamers, admirers, and potential lovers. One which strives toward her destiny without any obstruction, by any means, irrespective of from any entity. The battle has long been lost, and, for me, it is just on the tip of an ice berg before everything falls apart. No one will hear my pain, my suffering, and my turmoil. The devastation which I had to go through, and the forever abyss which I'm falling toward. I told you I'll deteriorate and disintegrate for just you. I think I've achieved that. My dream, and that of countless others, has shattered; those pieces of which are unrecoverable and undeniably broken. What is life without hope and dream? What is life without friends and family?

We are all human beings. The needs of whom are unsatisfiable, are lust, are desire, are fortune, are unattainable goals. Hear me, God! Give me strength, and strip me away of the negativity in both I and the deadly stars. May there be unison and cohesiveness between us in the next life, if not for the impending future!