WORDS FROM A MANIAC

New Roman">     What is missing from our life?

A lot of people complained about being swindled into false or fake thoughts during the Ten Years Cultural Revolution. They said the thoughts were only misleading. They only had been brainwashed in a true sense.

Nevertheless, they had something to believe in, fake or false it may be. They were not poor in terms of spirituality, which is just the thing we don’t have. It is something like a religion. So long as it doesn’t do any harm to the life or livelihood or sabotage national security, then it is ok for people to believe in something. That is the very thing that makes us distinct from other living species.

At present, we lose faith in anything. What we are striving for is only a meager or bounty physical existence in the world. We care nothing but money or social positions. If we are not empowered to have them, then we lose everything. Every developed country has seen such a stage. If satisfied with the basic desires, we seek more spiritual things to make our life rich, colorful and enjoyable.

Nowadays, most of us have no worries about our living. We want to find something to make our life more worthwhile to live. However we just find nothing. We are only dumbfounded, bewildered, and to cover all, lost.

Any affairs that are not fair in the world are so immutable, just beyond our power to change. What we can do is to accept them obediently. We have to adopt ourselves to so many things in the society, though we don’t think they are right. We have become fools, dumb living creatures, with nothing to support our life spiritually.

    Confronted with a void, we are at a loss, as to what is missing from our life.