Chapter Sixty Six: Destination

 Is it really a travel or a journey, and who cares actually? Is this how life is gonna be in the end?

At the moment of conception, when a sperm cell (the one who won the race) fertilizes the egg, with all its might and biological utility, life is created almost instantaneously by the forming of an embryo from two major organic materials and secretions that the two opposite sex contributed, by couples presumably in love with each other. The process of procreation then becomes perfected, and life begins its first sacred journey towards mystery. As the baby further develops inside the enclosure of the womb, the mother waits patiently for the passing of time; in nine months, she will bring another human being into the world. As such, life commences its curious process of creating the physical body as the enclosure for the conceived soul.

The fate of the newborn has already been determined for it; it had no opinion on whose parents it needed to have, what sex it must take, what physical attributes would soon define its existence for being (aside from the matters covered by Genetics), or in what color will be its skin, as well as the economic means of its family.

In short, someone must have had decided these things for the baby even before the sexual act. It will seemingly resemble an accident on first glance, that life happens by rupture, especially when the baby came as unplanned; the baby becomes the inconvenient result of the curiosity of youth, or the painful outcome of abuse or torture, and even as the consequence of crimes of passion or rape.

But still, the baby was physically conceived; and just as life is a soul created by God, that baby's embryo was never a result of accident but has been predetermined even before its conception. There can never be mistakes, for a God who is omnipresent, omnipotent, all-knowing and benevolent, he is incapable and cannot simply incur the mistakes of man by dismissing the sanctity of life as the mere result of the weakness of the flesh.

Whether that baby is to be born or to be terminated for several reasons, like the lack of economic means or the unfavorable circumstances of those who cannot become parents at such a tender age, it is not actually a question of simply choosing what is moral or immoral based on the available circumstances at the surface, but it is a question of such magnitude that can never be simplified for the consideration of a lot of factors. There is something bigger at stake that will allow a rational soul to contemplate on bigger (and the importance of) invisible things, which must then be appreciated in spiritual predicate to be able to consider the primary and the main core of respect for the essence of life.

It is to be carefully discerned just like any other experience that will require of this; and most importantly, everyone going through the same difficult times must think calmly and clearly, for anybody passing through the arduous stages of teenage years are confronted not only by inconvenient moral questions, but also presented with hurdles that will eventually shape the complete measure of an individual's path towards wisdom and maturity.

In whatever situation a rational being finds itself into a soul that is trapped, desperate, and helpless, the presence of a choice then becomes a turning point of its development as a human person. There is always an inherent good in all human beings (even those who are psychologically suffering from defects in personalities) and the primary reason why a person suffers from this condition is sufficiently corroborated through the basis of relevant proof for all the unfortunate paths it had chosen to take; maybe it is a result of the circumstances one was raised into or the result of the emotional traumas experienced. The things the being holds from its very own soul is wanting to get out that it had no choice but wish to implode; most dangerously of all, if all it desires was to completely surrender, then it will most certainly kill itself and drag others with it, bringing innocent lives with such utter desperation into the grave.

Society makes monsters; families raise a gentleman. If the family fails, society will succeed in the proliferation of more evil. Whatever it is the journey someone wishes to take in life considering the vulnerability of innocence, what is more important is to find peace everywhere: in the mind, in the heart and in the soul.

Burdens only put a human being into a much bigger burden too narrow to walk around, but however one may try, the effort to overcome the prison inside the mind will never result to a complete and total liberation.

Moral questions are not a mere religious practice in the final appreciation of humanity's search of its philosophy. Morality is the compass of life; it is not a destination to be reached, but a way to guide the appreciation of choices. Because as long as life offers a new experience, anything that is new will always require a fresh perspective on the relevant avenue to take.

In brief, life is an infinite experience to be lived, to be an open playground to enjoy and learn from, to savor its essence, and, ultimately, to be participated into, completely and unapologetically. And to become fully vulnerable in a world full of cheap imitation, the fullest way to go through this entire journey is to live an authentic life. It is not the mere concept of sins that eventually lead man into a state of hell, but it is usually the summation of all the mistakes and the poor choices that had been made. God gave this unique blessing of free will to humanity, after all. Life is all about the full self-examination of love and responsibility.

Anything that humans never grew from tends to keep repeating itself; the pain will always return until the lesson is learned.

Finally, whatever it is that someone is going through right now, the most prudent advice to give is to never give up on being a good person. The journey will be the same experience, regardless. Travel light and travel wise. Everything else is simply imagination.

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This Chapter is sponsored by Rimowa.