We all contribute to the creation of the fabric of history.....

Imagine, if you will, history as a gigantic tapestry of human events. All human acts, big or small, monumental or mundane, seen or unseen are indelibly etched into this tapestry. This is an endless work-in-process. It will only be finished when humanity is no longer around to continue working on it. Perhaps, some other beings somewhere in the universe will have the opportunity to view our handiwork. We humans will never have the chance to see the totality of what we have wrought.

This tapestry is imperfect. It is seriously flawed. A perfect tapestry would have a harmony of colors flowing along in a smooth pattern the way its creator intended it. But history has many authors, thus its fabric is a work of multiple hands. Some are well-intentioned some are not. So, where there is a harmony of colors you see splashes of reds, or blacks that don't belong. Still, our tapestry is what it is, as history cannot be rewritten.

A commendable deed will go into the tapestry of human events as a beautiful thread - a thread to offset the ugly splashes of reds and blacks. Each day an act of kindness, of charity, a cheerful smile, a helping hand, a kind word, even a nice thought all go into the tapestry in a wonderful way. On the other hand, an evil act makes more and more ugly splashes of reds and blacks like cans of paint thrown into an immaculate wall.

At the end of the day, you should ask yourself - "How has my day been? Have my actions been beautiful threads or ugly splashes of black and red?"

Here is where it all begins.......

It's been said that "home is where the heart is." I'd like to think this is true. You may travel far and wide, you may not even go back to where you came from, but somewhere inside you is a longing for home. Maybe at the moment of truth, when your entire existence flashes before you, I'll bet it would be mostly images of your childhood in your home sweet home.

But, more importantly, the "home is the cradle of human civilization", it is where the human person is nurtured, cared for and made to feel love and value as a human being. When the homes got messed- up at the start, the end result would be a messed-up society of individuals. It is simply cause and effect. The violence you experience in the streets and all anti-social acts aimed at making human life miserable in general traced their roots in the homes. Those responsible for making them a place of love, care and respect just made a mess. A crime is simply an act of releasing pent up anger, and the anger is an anger at being deprived of what one ought to have had. A criminal act is thus, an act of getting even. In many ways, the criminal is still a child hungering for what it had not experienced: attention. Now, the criminal is getting all the attention he can get.

Work and Career Do Not Favor the Entrepreneurial Spirit

While I was growing up, I was often told to -"get an education and get a job." No one in my family ever told me to -"get an education and make money." It appeared to me then that education and employment go hand in hand. It was as if one can not be without the other. While I was going through the prospectus in preparation for college, I noticed that the courses were mostly designed for employment; banking and finance, for graduates to start off as tellers; accounting, for graduates to work as bookkeepers; nursing for graduates to work in hospitals. There were of course courses designed for private practice like law and medicine. But, at the time, my family could not afford them. So I ended up taking Liberal Arts.

Lest my thoughts are taken out of context, may I say now that I am not against work. We all have to work to earn a living - whether for our own selves or for others. My point is, our cultural orientation is heavily biased in favor of "being educated in order to find employment." Meaning that, in a strict sense, our education is not for our sole benefit but -in a larger sense- for the employers who will hire us. So, many of the graduates end up working to make others rich and not to make profit for their own selves. There should have been more courses designed to teach students how to start their own business. You know, like an even playing field? Was there fear that if more graduates ended up as entrepreneurs no one would man the industries? I doubt it. Society would have adapted beautifully to the situation. And, there would have been less people that are unemployed.