Enjoy What Life Brings

Life is short and meaningless. No one knows what is best for us and what will happen next. So, kung gusto nyong mag-enjoy sa buhay, relax and enjoy what life brings. Enjoy your height or lack of it. Enjoy your width, your length and your depth. Kung yan ang nanay nyo hindi nyo na yan puwedeng palitan. Hanapan nyo na lang ng asset at nang mag-enjoy kayo. Etong biyenan nyo, etong anak nyo, etong inyong sitwasyon. Mayrong pwedeng palitan, mayrong hindi. Yung pwedeng palitan, palitan. Yung hindi, tanggapin at enjoyin. Ganun kasimple ang itinuturo ni Solomon. Hindi ka puro reklamo nang reklamo tungkol sa mga bagay na wala sa’yo, tuloy yung nandiyan, hindi mo na-appreciate.

Ecclesiastes 7:1-14—A good name is better than fine perfume and the day of death better than the day of birth. It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of every man; the living should take this to heart. Sorrow is better than laughter, because a sad face is good for the heart. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.

Ayan na naman ang mga talinghaga, baka lahat kayo magpuntahan sa Arlington Memorial dahil house of mourning daw. Baka ayaw nyo nang mag-party kahit kalian o ayaw nyo nang mag-birthday.

It is better to heed a wise man’s rebuke than to listen to the song of fools. Like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of fools.

Anon a naman ‘tong “like the crackling of thorns under the pot?” Yun daw yun lamang pag-aapoy. Yun tunog daw ng nasusuno na kahoy, ganun lang ang tunog ng nagtatawanan na mga hangal.

This too is meaningless. Extortion turns a wise man into a fool and a bribe corrupts the heart. The end of a matter is better than its beginning and patience is better than pride. Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools. Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions. Wisdom, like an inheritance, is a good thing and benefits those who see the sun. Wisdom is a shelther as money is a shelter but the advantage of knowledge is this; that wisdom preserves the life of its possessor. Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what he has made crooked? When times are good, be happy: but when times are bad, consider: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, a man cannot discover anything about his future.

Ayan, nawalan na ng hanapbuhay ang mga fortune-tellers at horoscope makers. Sinabi na –“a man cannot discover anything about his future.”

What else is meaningless? Asking why everythings is worse than it used to be. Yun bang you are always looking for the good old days, the good old days. Why is everything worse off than it used to be? Bakit nung araw ganun, ngayon ganito na? Eh ganito na talaga ngayon, tumigil ka na nang kaiisip tungkol sa noon g araw dahil tapos nay un.

What else is meaningless? Trying to change what God has done. Dapat nating napapaglimi-limi at mapag-aralan kung alin ba yung ginanyan na ng Diyos para huwag na nating baguhin pa. Halimbawa, “Eh paano pastor, ganito ang panga ko, pwede ko po bang dalhin ‘to sa doktor at papalitan? Napakahirap na tanong. Papalitan ko ba itong ginawa ng Diyos kasi yung iba nagagalit? Diyos ang naglagay diyan, ba’t nyo papalitan? Pero bakit yung kuko nyo ginugupit nyo? Di pahabain na rin yan dahil inilagay yan ng Diyos? So alin ang dapat at alin ang hindi dapat? I think dapat nating maisip yung pwede nating ma-improve o palitan na hindi naman natin ibebenta ang kaluluwa natin kay satanas. Yung hindi ka mapapahamak at hindi ka makakasakit ng kapwa. But there are things that just have to be accepted. At habang tinatanggap natin na mas, mas nagkakaroon tayo ng ligaya sa buhay. It is meaningless to try to change what God has done.