A Tabloid's Lesson...

As my first entry I would like this article to be didactic (haha a word I mostly encounter but never given a chance to be looked up in the dictionary. Well, not until yesterday when I scanned Garcia Marquez's Hundred Years of Solitude). I would like to share a lesson I have learned from a tabloid. Yes, a tabloid. I skim all sorts of reading materials including graffiti. I even waste time reading messages on cubicle walls best heard in Joe D'Mango's station. There is nothing wrong about reading a tabloid specifically "Bulgar" every morning, is there? I enjoy reading C. Fermin's blind items, so what?

Yesterday, after finishing the entertainment section in Bulgar I decided to browse the page before the sports section. It was a page exclusive for advice seekers. There was an article about a man complaining how much his life burdens him. It was irksome. I resent people who complains too much. Then my irritation was gradually washed out when I started reading the receiver's (a professor) reply. (I would not copy it here since I have no idea where that newspaper is now. But I would just write the same thought the way I understood it.)

"Many religious people mistake predicaments as trials. What they do not understand is that, the troubles that we had encountered in our lives was caused by no other than our own mistakes. If God is a good God like what everybody believes, why would He allow problems to occur in our lives when we certainly do not deserve it? He created us, therefore would a Good Creator destroy His own creation with never-ending problems? It is our past wrong actions that incites troubles to occur. So, don't we ever blame God."

Hmm... Very reflective. But I still wondered why some holy people still have problems. Then I asked myself, who can really say a person is undoubtedly holy? Everybody is a sinner. That is beyond doubt.

Well, I must say some tabloids are not really that bad...