People tend to misrepresent themselves.
More often than not, people who relish the habit of immersing themselves in externals are like hollow tin cans—they make a lot of noise when you kick them. This is to cite a personal observation on the pulse of how people mask their emptiness and hide the deep-seated pain of their spirit.
Masking, alright, has elevated to an art form already. To mask bad breath or awful toilet smell, mouthwash and air freshener comes in handy. Masking the excruciating pain of the spirit or the unbearable whisper of the conscience is not an exemption. To quote F. Sheen, “They search for constant distractions, or something to make one forget, anything to keep the wound below the surface, and the memories from flying upward.”
Typical of an opening shot of a B movie: Character nurses bottles of beer, rather, drinks like a fish in a single’s or a red-light district bar, get hooked or do drugs and get a temporary relief for the character’s emptiness. With the shift of lifestyles and hedonism becoming a trend, this scene has become commonplace already.
We see these characters give loose morals a life form--typical of characters that never seem to care about resuscitating the last signs of their conscience. Letting the voice of the conscience fell into deaf ears is a good breeding ground for conscience destruction. More so--is a psychopath in germination. Psychopath, according to F. York in his article Soul Murder, is an individual who has no feelings for others.
Moreover, F. Sheen as quoted, “Even this very tendency to deny guilt or to suppress it, or to ridicule the fact of sin, is in itself a fear of judgment.” On a personal note, people who subscribe to this notion try to see what image they only want to see in their reflection in the mirror. Their delusions blind them, rather keeps them from seeing the truth.
On hindsight, God has plans and purpose for each one. Man may never seek to find his gifts, but God, sooner or later will unravel the gift, for man to know his purpose—i.e. to serve and to be with God.
External realities and a person’s experiences influence him. What a person right now is a product or consequence of the choices he made. Experience makes man gain high-level maturity. Man attains pure enlightenment and genuine redemption after he has gone through blissful and painful experiences and passed through the rebellious stage or the rite of passage. Experience, therefore is a factor that defines personality.
The bottom line is, when we come face-to-face with God during judgment day, it is no longer between me and my neighbor, neither my responsibility to my friends nor family, rather it is a responsibility between me and God.
In conclusion, one should pass judgment to anyone but himself. The manifestations of the physical component are directly observable in contrast to the spiritual component, which is not.
In days when your eyes lay on a used plastic cup by the seaside, remember, if it could only talk, it has a story to tell also.
