This has been the third time I watched the movie of the extraordinary and moving journey of Pope John Paul II. I bought this movie “Karol: A man who become Pope” a few months ago.

Ever since watching it for the first time, I grew in love with this man, Karol Wojtyla. Set in the 1930’s in the country of Poland, the 10-year-old Karol has dreams, many dreams. One by one they are shattered.

The loss of his beloved parents and brother, the outbreak of the war by the Nazis and the death-fleeing human exodus, and the Jewish persecution turned a worker to a poet and a teacher.

It was God who, through all these encounters, touched him and called him to become a priest and finally in 1978, to become the man who has marked an era, a man who has made history.

While I was watching this movie, I was caught with a conversation between Karol (when he was yet a Pope) with his students.

“Why do some men act like wild beasts while others become heroes? What makes some men betray their friends and other sacrifice their lives for people they don’t even know?” asked a male student.

“People are bad because they are scared and unhappy. And because of this they can be driven to violence and self destruction.” answered a female student.

Karol then proceed saying, “Happiness and unhappiness are deep down inside each one of us. Descartes: Man is in the middle, between God and nothingness. And he must choose.”

This reminds me of our choices we make everyday. Each day we get to choose to live happily or a day full of miseries. And of course we get to choose to act like a wild beast or a hero which the former betrays friends while the latter sacrifices his life.

I stared at the four walls around my room, thinking and searching for answers. If answers were easy to find, we would not be using the term “searching for answers”. There is still no answer as to why we have been given the freedom to choose between goodness and badness.

However, guided by faith and Christ teaching - love, that should the basis of our lives. That profound love for God and faith are what the Pope believed in, so should we.

Love is not something that can be taught. And yet, it is absolutely vital to learn about it. In the same way, faith is also something that cannot be taught but one has to learn about it. We must learn to have faith. We must learn to see everything in the nothingness, light in the darkness and salvation in destruction.

We are living in a difficult world. With prices of things rising, crime rates on the rise, the morality of human on the drop, and the persecution of faith by the media, we must not lose faith. If there were weapons and amours for us to fight this battle, that would be love.

Despite everything, we must find love within us. It is the only strength which can change us.

I am looking for that deeper love. How about you?

It’s 7th of July now. I am currently collaborating on two projects. You know I am not the type of person who can have my butt fixed at a place for a long time. I grab opportunities whenever there are opportunities.

The blogging community is so huge that if you do not belong to a particular group or niche you are going to be left behind. We all know well the famous Chinese story telling us that a pack of chopsticks are stronger than a pair of chopsticks. That’s how the blogging community works.

To better reinforce the position of this site, I have joined hands with a few crazy bloggers (I am not the initiator).

Revive My Blog Post project

Initiated by 3Point8, this group is formed to compile and publish blogpost that are considered as a work of masterpiece (but lying deep in the archive never to be read by anyone ever again) to subscribers, fanatic blog readers, humans and green green aliens staying over in Area51.

The main idea of this master project is to publish ONE good-quality blogpost everyday (only ONE post per day. no more no less). Members are only expected to copy and paste their old blogpost to this blog. So, in a reader’s perspective, they get to read something interesting. In a author’s perspective, it doesn’t take much effort to be in the club.

Having said that, I am one of the authors contributing some of my masterpiece. Now, the whole thing is that I get to publish my post say once a fortnight now that they are a dozen of people on this leauge. When there are more members joining, I might only publish my post say once a month or so.

This is my first time joining such project and digging my own archive to look for a good post. Well, there are a lot of things to be considered, why don’t you tell me which post that I have written is worth nominated? Cast your vote please.

For more information, proceed to Revive My Blog Post

Shout! @ Malaysiana

Started by Aminusone, Shout! is a blog aggregator and but not a ping site. Probably you’ve heard about Project Petaling Street or other similar projects out there. To address why Shout! is here.

Firstly, Shout! will run on manual submission only, at least for now. No ping, no aggregate.

Secondly, Shout! is just a starter for Malaysiana.org. The site has been up for one year but no activities were carried out back then, hence Shout! serves as a starter.

Thirdly, Shout! is trying to find quality Malaysian bloggers for the next project. We are still developing plans for this, do wait for our awesome news.

I know it’s weird to have two polls in a post, I certainly appreciate if you could answer these two polls. You know your opinions do matter, they do.

For more information, proceed to Malaysiana.org

Thank you for your time. Hope you have a lovely Monday and of course for the rest of this week.