Daily writing prompt

How have your political views changed over time?

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I’ve always been suspicious of politicians (not without reason) and politics itself as an institution. We can’t live without politics. Our very existence is political – how we relate to one another and the world, how we fulfill our needs (and wants), our differing opinions and perspectives. Like many institutional problems, politics became (or has become) a law unto itself, something that serves its own agenda instead of (or alongside) what it actually exists to do. Isn’t it maddening the amount of money, time and energy that goes into ‘campaigning’ when the very people they’re supposedly campaigning to lead are in dire and urgent need?

Instead of merely speaking in hypotheticals (i.e. “I would stop using it”), I want to see someone put their money where their mouth is and actually leave whatever piece of technology it is behind. It’s no use just talking about being better off without it, in my opinion, just like it’s no use merely talking about going to the market when our stomachs are rumbling, (or to the hospital when we’re sick). You’d say we were crazy for not actually going to the market for food, or to the hospital for a cure (by the same token, liking a post such as this one without the message of the post transforming anyone internally falls into the same category).

So, let’s do this, and not just talk about it. I’m waiting expectantly 😏

Holy answer: Give it away to someone needy/more deserving/a charity

Realistic answer: Keep it for myself, because I also have things to do, you know

We may plan for tomorrow, but we all know deep down it may not be ours, and while that uncertainty unsettles us, it should ultimately humble us. “What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time, and then vanishes.” (James 4:14). Therefore we ought to realise any strength or enablement to do what we do must come from a higher source – the Almighty God.

It should also bring to our attention the zero-hour decision we are all faced with – crossing the red line so to speak, and sealing our eternal destiny by our ultimate choice. Summed up by Pascal’s wager: What if it’s all true: the Bible, the prophets, the evangelists? What if He does return, meaning He was once here, and everything written about Him (and us) is also true? What choice now will ensure we have no regrets if that eventuates?