IF I COULD TEACH THE WORLD.

When I wake up every morning these days, I usually wonder where the world is heading to. Apart from the news items that could send you back into your bed, I sometimes think about the events I see happening around me. I see humanity heading towards a destination I do not know about. The milk of human kindness is hard to come by nowadays. Being good is now seen as a weak trait. Being brash, loud and arrogant is celebrated by many citizens of the world nowadays. Sex, which is a gift to humanity by God has been turned into a weapon by human beings. It has been commercialised in a mostly negative manner. I don't want to be a judge on this matter, but I wish I could teach the world.

It is no longer the world I grew up in. I grew up feeling peace in the air. There was this Garden of Eden atmosphere back then that I can't describe now. Maybe it was because I was a kid back then. Maybe I was too young to notice the physical and spiritual wars going on among humanity then. However, I was given a lot of love then. I am talking about the 80's and early 90's, before things went awry. There were relationships then. People fell in love way back without too much material consideration. Nowadays it is all about the Benjamins. Money is mostly considered first before love or attraction. How sad. If only I could teach the world.


Marriages break up easily these days. Terrorism is virtually turning the world into a fortress. There is so much suspicion and Governments spend a lot of money on security. I feel this cash should be spent on the homeless and the poor who don't have food to eat. Man has not been able to understand the reason for various shades of skin color and has been sometimes animalistic when dealing with those who are not looking like him. Knowledge is rampant these days, but there is no kindness to back it up. And knowledge without compassion is like drinking cereal mixed with gravel. I wish I could teach the world.

I wish I could teach the world to change its ways. I wish I had the power to influence people to treat their fellow human beings better. I wish I had the power to bring peace to the world, stop hunger and poverty and make people realize the folly of stacking up money in banks or building external reserves of money when people are suffering. However, I have realized that the power to change the world does not lie with me. It lies with God. He is the only one that can redeem the world. I can only pray to him to touch the hearts of men. He knows where the world is heading to anyway, and it is all for the achievement of his grand purpose for humanity. The world lies in his hands and that is why we have day and night, winter and summer and spring and autumn. I wait in earnest for the new world.