If I ask you the same question, what will you answer?

by Yas Jayson Sunday, May 06, 2012 5 palagay di na naman in-edit street lessons what matters most

Someone asked me, "What matters to you?" I told him two things matter to me. Purpose and meaning. He smiled and went on with asking some other few questions. I wish I had told him why.

Purpose and meaning.

I guess to these two words hung my very core. Take away these and I will be nothing. It is why I fall in love, march through the streets, go to work, and wake up every morning. To these two words lie the foundation of my faith, of my causes and my struggles. You take away meaning and I become relativist. You take away purpose and I become a mere product of evolution and chance. I pity those who say they love someone yet does not believe in a great design to which this humanity is brought forth. I pity those who fight for equality yet say there is no God, I wonder what will become of their struggle.

Meaning and purpose. I hope that my generation will not lose these and become good sounding freethinkers with empty words. That is why I join the parliament of the streets without divulging into Marxist idealism. That is why I uphold the dignity of life and morality. That is why I continue to love the same person everyday in faithful commitment. I struggle to fill meaning and purpose to my words and actions. Because I am not matter plus time plus chance.