Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we diet!

A few weeks ago, the minister at one of our local churches (one of the few I have visited in an attempt to find a spiritual home here) spoke out of Ecclesiastes. Tonight, I experienced what he meant.

He taught that we should "eat, drink and be merry", because life is short and unpredictable. Tonight I ate, drank and was merry and remembered what he said. It's true! We can never solve all the world's problems, or even all our own problems. Life will always have an element of surprise and absurdity. The question is: Do you stop living and freak out about everything that's wrong with the world, or do you savour and enjoy that which is good?

I don't think he meant that we should stop trying to make a difference, but that we should not be swallowed up by the big black hole that is everything that is wrong with the world.

Amidst all the muck and blood, sweat and tears that our lives sometimes become, we have to take the time to sit with friends and loved ones and just enjoy! Laugh, joke, philosophise, eat, drink and be merry, because tomorrow will bring its share of problems, whether we agonise over it or not. But, tomorrow cannot rob of us the joy we created and memories we made today.

I thank God for friends and family who love me and who have given me years of joy and wonderful memories and continue to do so every day just by being who they are and sharing of themselves with me.