“Silent gratitude isn’t very much use to anyone”
Gertrude Stein
Failure to Reason
June 26, 2008 at 3:17 pm (All Blogs, All Personals)
Tags: All Blogs, allah, blogs, faith, God, islam, life, loba blogs, muslim, random, Religion, spirituality, thoughts, writing
I met a woman recently who was convinced that her failing marriage was entirely the fault of the woman that her ex-husband cheated with and remarried. She wished and prayed daily for nothing more than an eternal life of much damnation for this woman.
I don’t believe she’s succeeded.
I tried with much effort to feel her pain and empathize. I tried to make her see some reason and focus on her growing children and their future. I tried to convince her to save her prayers for useful matter and turn her devotion back to God. I tried to ask her to leave her ex-husband and this woman in God’s capable hands and trust God’s will.
I don’t believe I succeeded.
Loba
Life and Habits
June 25, 2008 at 3:07 pm (All Blogs, All Personals)
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I have come to see how quickly one can change. How quickly evil can seep into people. It’s all a matter of habit. I strongly believe that.
I have always been fond of saying how we are all creatures of habit and I firmly believe it to this day. Habits, good or bad, define us. They define our quality of life, character, ethics and foundation of beliefs.
Unfortunately many bad actions, though they may seem insignificant at the time, if repeated will very likely develop into long-term habits. Such habits can include drinking, smoking, using violence, gossiping, judging, embracing sheer arrogance or spreading ignorance at worst.
I feel truly blessed to be able to at least detect this and to try and sometimes be able to stop the growth of such mold wherever possible. I just hope others do too.
Loba
Immortality
April 16, 2008 at 10:06 pm (All Blogs, All Personals)
Tags: faith, God, Immortality, life, loba blogs, mortalility, random, thoughts, writing
What if we became immortal?
Would we cherish life more?
Would we sleep through life more?
Would we take life for granted more?
Would we help others or help ourselves more?
Would we consider ourselves blessed or superior more?
What if we became mortal again?
Would we cherish life more?
Would we sleep through life more?
Would we take life for granted more?
Would we help others or help ourselves more?
Would we consider ourselves blessed or superior more?
Loba
Controlled Silence
March 28, 2008 at 10:21 am (All Blogs, All Personals)
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I wonder what it really takes for people to constantly excuse their behavior and rationalize their lack of ethics and morals. It must be exhausting to be like that.
How can people live with themselves high in webs of lies and deceit? Is it so much better to ruin another’s day, self worth or even life and then say “it’s just business”?
Are such people so low or maybe rather high on themselves to believe that it’s acceptable to stomp on ethics and hurt others, all for the sake of “success” and material gain?
Unless one is born with a lower intelligence or has an inability to mentally differentiate right from wrong, I’m not one to excuse such behavior as ignorance. My sympathy is spent on the ones who actually deserve it.
I can’t help but find such people disgusting to the core of their self-reduced beings and have no tolerance whatsoever for such attitude. Respectful people deserve respect and the rest deserve much controlled silence.
Loba
Land of Un-enforced Laws
February 19, 2008 at 4:42 pm (All Blogs)
Tags: All Blogs, canada, ice, life, loba blogs, ontario, random, snow, thoughts, toronto, winter, writing
In a land where protests take place for women’s “rights” to walk topless on streets, noone seems to protest about walking on the same streets without breaking their necks in February. It is astonishing to see how many sidewalks are covered with thick beautiful and smooth sheets of ice, with no grain of salt, day after day after day.
As long as the roads are clear for cars, all else seems to be secondary or actually even lower on the list of city’s priorities. Children walking home from school, mothers with baby carriages, the elderly with their walkers, and the rest of the people who just want to get home are at risk. Even when walking past expensive condominiums and Fortune 500 corporation sidewalks, odds are actually quite worse.
Yet we mock the citizens of our beloved south of the border neighbor who apparently sue themselves, their families, neighbors, dogs, local businesses and governments left and right. Maybe we should learn from them. Maybe then this would stop.
Loba
