Friday, November 7, 2008

Are You a Sucking Black Hole or a Shinning Sun?

Are you the kind of person who sucks everyone you meet inside your insatiable ego? Or are you a person who brightens the day of others with your cheerful selflessness?

When we talk about black holes we often think of it as a vacuum in space that sucks everything on its path and destroys them in the process. Some people are like that! Egoistical people are like black holes. Their ego has this insatiable desire to be bloated. It is like a vacuum that it sucks everything it encounters. They will take anything and everything that will inflate their ego even at the cost of destroying a person. “It’s all about me baby!” is their motto.

I often see this in relationships. When one partner is so selfish and egoistical that they want to control the relationship for their own pleasure and in doing so destroys the other individual’s unique character. They make people miserable.

Unlike the black hole which sucks everything to destruction, the sun totally gives itself away. The sun burns itself to shed light to the universe. Soon it will exhaust itself and die.

The sun sacrifices itself to give life to the other planets.

There are people who are like the sun. They bring light and hope to the people they encounter. They are able to break through the clouds of despair and sadness of the people they meet with their kind words and actions. They are selfless people who are not preoccupied with lifting themselves up. They are more focused in making this world a better place even if it is one person at a time. Most important of all they are willing to make sacrifices for love’s sake.

And like the sun, these people stand out and shine in this dark world we live in.

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