Red traffic lights
18th March 2010
The fire incident in Nicosia which happened on 27th January 2010 which has killed two people has brought shock to the Fiipino community. Following the investigation, it was concluded as a suicide murder due to jealousy. To summarize, He did it, but she made him do it. “He loved her too much,” a Cypriot guy said. Love. Jealousy. Money and the so called “convenient future”. Hmmm. My condolences to the families of the victims especially the children. The two are gone but let us absorb the message which their death conveys. Let us open our eyes to the reality that no matter what we start to do, we always find the end.
In this Valentine season, let me tackle a piece about love and the how I understood about it. Love brings forth positivity in a person. Love alone makes the difficult things easier to handle, turning the impossible to possible. Love brings hope and joy in anyway. No matter how bad a person is, love does not complain, and certainly, love does not kill. It is the selfishness of a person that destroys love. There are different kinds of enemies around us but the most dangerous is that enemy within. The enemy that creates destruction as it clouded the mind with jealousy and greed. Two bodies were found dead and there are controversies that came along with it which are better off to be thrown in the dust bin. I hope that we can only see the lessons that we get from it. Love is the most beautiful thing that could happen to us because it emanates only from God. It is never jealous nor proud. When Christ’s love is in you, there is no room for jealousy and pride, nor a space to entertain doing the wrong thing. Like a traffic light, use Love as the red light to stop you from being in the wrong end of life.