As time goes by

Hi

Time whizzes by so fast that before you realise it, another week has gone past! You wonder where the time has gone and what you did during the past week. I can hardly remember, unless I check my diary.

Some days, there are notations while there are no entries on others. Does that mean that I have done nothing on those days?

Have you ever been in the same position?

Life is a cycle: birth, the various stages of development, growing, aging and death. The moment of birth begins the journey to the end - death. Have you ever pondered what happens to those who have died? Where do their spirits or essence go? Our bodies are the garments clothing our spirits and once we shed them, where do we go?

My golf buddy tells me that we all go to a place where we wait, to be judged by the Almighty and then we go to the place we deserve. To her it means either to our heavenly home or to the place where we suffer punishment for our sins. I wonder????? Do you???????

There must be millions of spirits out there but I guess the universe is big enough to house everyone since spirit has no form and therefore does not take up space. Or are we recycled??? The idea of "recycle" could explain where some people experience a "deja vu" when they are in a certain place. Perhaps they have been there before in another lifetime and "recognise" it.

Anyone has any ideas to share? You must be wondering why this topic comes up while we are on the fairways. We should be concentrating on our shots and our game. But the beauty of the early morning, the unbelievable canvas of colors that reveal what the day is going to be like, burning hot or otherwise, leads us to topics such as this. What hand can paint such beauty, create the cool of the newborn morning only to change it into a remorselessly humid and scorching day barely half an hour later. The awesome hulk of Mt Kinabalu in the distance, dwarfing the surrounding mountains is a sombre reminder of the power of the Almighty.

How much time do we have here, on earth? We will never know so it is up to us to make the best use of it, and not to squander it by doing nothing useful. Some have plans, 1 year plan, 3 year plan, 5 year plan etc, etc. Good for you. You know where you are going and how you are going to get there.

As for me, I want more people to be aware of the health issues that concern us. We need to be aware of what we consume and to consume food that will strengthen our immune system and give us good health. At the same time we need to watch our weight. We need to lose the excess weight so that it will not burden our hearts.

I was horrified to discover from one of the ladies in our exercise group that unscrupulous vendors are throwing in a couple of drinking straws into their frying pans so that the oil that has been used over and over again will remain clear and the banana fritters will always remain crisp even when they are cold. They do the same thing for onions as well. No wonder they are never seen to consume their own products! For they well know the poison they have included in their oil. So think before you put another deep fried banana fritter into your mouth or into your child's mouth.