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Consider the what-ifs

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The difficult questions in life – they beg our attention. I considered this over a long period of time, and some how, because of a conversation I had yesterday, I was terrorized and then it hit me how important it is that we keep questioning the issues in order that we are able to consider all available options in making our choices. It happened when I asked a friend, 'What do you think is your role here on earth right now?'

The answer was to the effect of, 'I'm not sure, I've wondered about that myself, and for now God is silent in my life, and but I am faithful that He will tell me soon enough, I will have to wait.'

But what if, what if God is already speaking?
What if God is speaking to us in the silence?
What if there is a message in all of this?
What if the disaster in China, in Myanmar, in Afghanistan, had to happen for a reason?
What if the reason was precisely to destroy the bad to allow good to come out of it?
What if the challenge is to come out of our comfort zones and venture into deep waters?
What if we're all in water, but we don't realize it?
What if the world ends tomorrow?
What if we keep waiting?

or closer to home..

What if Barisan Nasional keeps being in power?
Or what if Pak Lah really resigns tomorrow?
What if the Tun was right, and what if Pak Lah is wrong?
What if… Pak Lah and Barisan Nasional is right, and Pakatan Rakyat is wrong?
What if fuel subsidies really get lifted up completely, come this time tomorrow?
What if every single PSD did get their scholarship request?
What if suddenly everyone who wanted to become a doctor was given a place in university to study medicine, no questions asked, no requirements necessary?
What if everyone became a millionaire today?
What if everyone become poor today?
What if people didn't care?
or What if everyone started to care?
What if people stop fighting over silly issues like 'I have the right to use Allah in my religious books.'
or What if every woman in the country started wearing the tudung?
or more provocatively, What if every woman stopped wearing the tudung?

What if Islam isn't the true religion?
What if Christianity isn't the true religion?
What if there were no God?
What if heaven didn't exist?
or What if hell really is full of brimstone and fiery pits?
What if God does exist?
What if the internet isn't here? How would the world be today?
What if you could turn back time? What would you do?
What if you knew what you could do, and yet chose not to do anything?
What if you could make a difference in this world, and yet you didn't do anything?
What if you're just going to live, earn a living and die — just like that?

I cannot accept, that we must be blind mice, following doctrines and accepting laws and rules and regulations without ASKING the difficult questions and at least struggling to seek the answers. I am unable to be 'ok' with people who don't think beyond the current, who don't act beyond the safe, who don't exercise the right to choose. And then I keep asking myself, What if I just chose to stay put where I am, and let things be? What if this is it?

Tagging: Edrei, Mabel, Robert, Caleb, Zewt, Sivin.