of walkmans and ipods..Life's Buttons.

Great! I have a walkman.


It was one of the coolest things to have back in the '80s. But I did not find it cool because mine was bigger than a pocketbook. It consumed space while carrying it around. It was cumbersome, though it was portable. With regards efficiency, it gobbled up a lot of power that you have to bring lots and lots of batteries with you. However I enjoyed it because of the fast forward feature since it turns music and voice into chipmunk like sound. Other than that it was just a plain gadget.

Now a days you have ipods, mp3s, mp4s, and what have you. They still have the same features of rewind, fast forward, pause, stop and play buttons. This time however mechanical buttons are not there anymore. Just by mere touch of the pad, you run the feature. The marvels of technology indeed! As they say "technology today, is obsolete tomorrow".

Life is like technology. In constant change. Always new. Creative.

And just like technology, life depends on me and you. On us. We can choose to move forward with it or we can just remain stagnant with it.

We have the power. Some of us chose to stop and refuse to go ahead because of the ignorant belief that this is all there is in their life. That life will offer them no more than what they could want and do. So they just push the stop button. There are those who believe that they cannot create new memories anymore thus they remain stuck in the mud of their past. Transfixed in their past successes, failures and hurts in life. All they do is recall, reminisce, and rewind.

For others, life should be a blur with a trite conviction that time is gold. Waste of time is a bigger sin than wasting relationships in the name of time. It's always the shortest distance that matters. With God, what matters is the instance not the distance. With relationships, what matters is spending time not dividing time. With life, what matters is going forward not fast forward.

Life is to be lived now! Living life is the greatest show of appreciation to the Author of Life. Live your life as it comes. Savor life. Simplify life. Share life. Push the play button of life.

Life's buttons are there for us to push.