Saturday, February 18, 2012

Count your days

   Remember your Creator
   in the days of your youth,
before the days of trouble come
   and the years approach when you will say,
   “I find no pleasure in them”—
  before the sun and the light
   and the moon and the stars grow dark,
   and the clouds return after the rain;
 when the keepers of the house tremble,
   and the strong men stoop,
when the grinders cease because they are few,
   and those looking through the windows grow dim;
 when the doors to the street are closed
   and the sound of grinding fades;
when people rise up at the sound of birds,
   but all their songs grow faint;
 when people are afraid of heights
   and of dangers in the streets;
when the almond tree blossoms
   and the grasshopper drags itself along
   and desire no longer is stirred.
Then people go to their eternal home
   and mourners go about the streets.
  Remember him—before the silver cord is severed,
   and the golden bowl is broken;
before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,
   and the wheel broken at the well,
 and the dust returns to the ground it came from,
   and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 12.
This reminded me to value the days i have in university instead of moaning about them.
To cherish life instead of questioning if it is worth living, for sometimes it gets too tiring just to think of the days i have to go through.
To value every breath that i have left, every heartbeat that remains, for this life is a gift from God.