It's All Saints' Day and it's gonna be a hectic day for me. But over a cup of coffee (sugar-free, that is), I have come to ponder that really, our lives aren't meant to be spent for ourselves, but rather it's intended that we spend it for others.
Come to think of this...
When we were infants and toddlers and kids, we were too young to care for ourselves, too young to care for what we wear, say, or what others say about us.... Simply put, when we were young, we were in the purest of our innocence that all we have in mind is how to care for others.
When we went to school, we didn't really have the luxury of time to hang out as often as we want to, such that we ended up moaning and groaning because we live a fully-packed school life.
When we started to have work, our obligations begin to mount... and so our dependents. We were too busy at work, building our careers, sending our siblings to schools and helping out our parents.
Then, we realize it's time to settle down, get married, and raise a family. Again, no time to think for ourselves, but put our partners and kids first, thinking of how to live them, send them to school, clothe them, shelter them, and raise them to become better people.
Then, it's time to retire, time to send away kids, time to see them raise their own families, time to say good bye to our parents, and time to lose our loved ones.
And then, that's the time when we are one and alone. That's the time when we ponder on what we did with our lives. At the end of the day, at the sunset of lives, we come to realize that the best moments of our lives aren't actually about partying or foolin' around. The greatest moments of our lives are those when we spend it with our loved ones, and give our times for others.
In our most lonesome moments, that is when we realize that our lives are well-lived because we spend it for the sake of others.
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