At sabi niya, do not strain yourself trying to understand
everything. Siya na mismo na pinakamatalino sa balat ng lupa ang nagsasabi,
“Alam nyo marami akong hindi maintindihan. Eto meaningless sa akin. Eto
meaningless. Eto meaningless. Ang talino ko na nga hindi ko maintindihan, kayo
pa.” Sabi niya, huwag nyo na lang intindihin lahat. Huwag nyo na lang
i-research lahat, huwag nyo na lang bulatlatin lahat. Lulungkot lang kayo. The
more a man knows, the sadder he gets. Why? Kasi nalalaman niya ang lahat ng
kalungkutan ng buhay tuloy. Or, nalaman niyang hindi pala niya kayang malaman
lahat, nalulungkot tuloy siya. Kaya sabi, “Huwag na kayong sobrang
magpakatalino.’ Do not try to know everything. Try to know many things. Try to
know as many as possible. But not everything, because it is impossible. You
will only be miserable.
Ecclesiastes 9:1-10
So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous
and the wise and what they do are in God’s hands, but no man knows whether love
or hate awaits him. All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked,
the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and
who do not.
As it is with the good man, so with the sinner; as it is
with those who take oaths, so with those who are afraid to take them. This is
the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes
all. The hearts of men, moreover, are
full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live and afterward
they join the dead. Anyone who is among the living has hope—even a live dog is
better of than a dead lion! For the living know that they will die, but the
dead know nothing, they have no further reward and even the memory of them is
forgotten. Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished;
never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun.
