TWILIGHT TIME

TWILIGHT TIME

Twilight generally brings gloom. Sometimes it is depressing. It is the setting of the sun announcing the coming of darkness. A beautiful sunset even at Manila Bay is still a sunset… an end to brightness… a goodbye to light. What could be a more lonesome scene than twilight?

When light takes a rest and darkness is born, a new kind of life reigns. In the kingdom of darkness evil prevails because the devil thrives well in the dark.

But let us not forget the moon and the stars… millions of them though far from each other contribute to the newly created light. These are the new lights that emanate new glow, new glitter, new beginning, and new hope. Come to think of it. A newborn darkness gives birth to a multitude of light which are uncoordinated but also help one another because there is coordination in their ‘uncoordinatedness’.

Human mind is like the light of a distant star. Human minds are minute glitters that together creates a congregation of glow more beautiful than sunshine. Our minds do twinkle like the stars. Oh how lucky what we are.

Politically we are now in the midst of darkness but let us not lose hope. Let our own glitter contributes a bit to brighten the atmosphere. Let us paint the sky with our own twinkle and glow. In the cosmos some stars die but they leave behind lights that travel billions of light years to reach our eyes… If each of us can only generate a little light, it will also help during dark, dark nights… to drive away the devil that cannot survive in the presence of light.

Let us not fear darkness, literally or figuratively. Let us not be afraid of the impending food shortage. We are probably eating too much that is why we get too sick too easily. Let us not be afraid of over population, it is just one night of darkness. Sunrise shall come again when everything shall be bright. Yes, there is darkness in the Philippine sky but let us all wait for the coming of the stars and enjoy their twinkles every night no matter how dark.