Sunday, October 7, 2007

Loving (?) Your Enemy

Enemy is an individual or a group that is hostile toward another. Enemy is an opponent; someone who is against your principle; someone who puts you down. It is truly difficult to "love" your enemy but that is what we are all expected to do.

Enemy may also be interpreted as anything against your welfare, such as foods that harms your health or habits that destroy you as a person. In this sense, many of us are greatly "in love" with our enemies. So we eat fatty foods and other junks. Not only that - we overeat. We take too much sugar, alcohol and salt. We indulge in prohibited pleasures and we abuse even our natural resistance. This of course is done not in the name of love but as an abnormal craving to which we happily and voluntarily succumb.

The whole world is in great trouble because nobody seems to be doing the right thing. Situations and events are not getting any better in any part of the planet. They say these are signs that the world is about to end... They say that these have all been prophesied in the Bible and they are bound to happen no matter what we do.The whole process is part and parcel of the universal cycle. So be it.

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