About Christianity

'please take a look at the water tank! inside there are many fishes of strange shapes.'

'deep sea fishes... are they deep sea fishes?'

'correct. under normal conditions we should not be able to see them. the ocean is separated into layers by their big difference in temperatures. the above is called the surface, the bottom is called the deep sea ( this is an over-simplication of the simplication of sea level categories). for every increase of 10m of depth of the sea, the atmospheric pressure increase by 1. in the deepest part of the ocean, for every 1cm squre there is an increase in 1 ton of pressure. hence organisms living in the deep sea are very special. the world that never saw the light - other than that, they have no other places they could live in. they could only live there, just like me. (erm, i am bad at this. if i say anything scientifically wrong please pardon me.)

is school life fun, recca? there are many friends there. what are your favorite tv programs? who are your favorite artiste? are you in a relationship? all of you live on the surface, fishes that swim freely. the world i live in - even plants, swimming organisms cannot even survive there. to live, they can only eat the corpses of other fishes. fishes that cannot even swim up to the surface even if they want it.

the world mori-sama (name of a person. -sama is a form of addressing a person of higher level respectfully) wants to create... is to turn the surface just like the pitch-black deep sea. a world that no other organisms other than deep sea fishes can live! mori-sama created for me, a world that i could also live in.'

'i will not let you do whatever you want to do. that is not the world we want. we are free.'

'freedom? i also want it very much. but it is too late! fishes who even forgot how to swim, it is already -- '

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ok the above conversation sounded a bit lame. it is supposed to be a sad story. but because of lack of space i cut it out and took out the important parts. so, here we go...

deep sea fishes. in the human world, there are people like that. like what the person said, most of us are fishes living on the surface. swimming freely, experiencing life the normal way. and there are people, like the deep fishes, live in the pitch-black world of despair. a world with no light and hope.

i think, for those of us who live in the surface, we would definately not be able to fully understand the feelings of those who live in the deep sea, those who were not able to see any hope, those who could only see despair and darkness around... and finally those, who lost the ability to see hope (fishes who forgot how to swim).

for a human, hope is the driving factor for us to move forwards. a person may not have love, but he can have hope. and as long as a person has hope, be it good or bad, moral or not, he is able to move on. it doesn't matter what the person is hoping for, as long as there is hope, a person can walk forwards.

a person who lost hope, he cannot walk forwards. like the fish which forgot how to swim, he is unable to go forwards too, unable to go to a world where there is light. there are many people like that. well we ignore those people who love to dramatize things and make it as if their whole world collapsed when there is a little problem in their lives.

like that person who wanted freedom but was not able to get it, there are people who wanted to go on to the surface, but do not know how, or that they could not. i cannot imagine how a person can live through life like that. but the fact is, there are people like that. oh man, i keep repeating myself.

do you know people around you who are like that? a person who lost all hope may not look like it on the surface. afterall, humans are fantastic actors on the stage called 'life'. all humans belong to the surface, yet it is tragic that some are in the deep sea. some are born into that world, some are pulled down by the others...etc.

one may be down, but as long as he can still see hope and work for the future, he is one who live on the surface. maybe the part of the surface where it is near the deep sea, but nevertheless still on the surface. those who live in the deep sea can never come up again on their own. because they had lost the will and not see the hope. if left alone they will continue to stay there. at least, that is what i think.

what can we, the fishes on the surface do? because we see the light, because we can see the hope, we know there is a future for them to go. because we have experienced it ourselves. and then, the only thing we can do, is to help them out of that pitch-black world. bring them into our world. maybe, their problems are too big for us to help. maybe, we can do nothing 'practical' to help them. but as christians, the least we could do, is to pray.

prayer cost you nothing, maybe your time used for praying. but if prayers can help a person and bring him up to the surface where there is light, isn't that little time spent worth it? we may not be able to help, but we know God can. He wants us to live life to the fullest, and if we by ourselves cannot help others, then we can ask God to help, or ask Him to help us help them.

talk is easy right? i thought so too. afterall, if it is that easy, the deep sea fishes would not exist in the first place. maybe we can put it this way: if we help, maybe there is a chance to pull that struggling person out. but if we don't, then that person will stay there. life is meant to be filled with all sorts of emotions - anger, happiness, sadness, frustrations, hope, despair, depression...etc. but if one only has the negative of the emotions, then he is not living life.

there are many deep sea fishes. we may not know who they are. but at least, as christians, if you have the time, pray for these people. it doesn't require much of your time and effort. just a minute a day praying for them. out of all the 24 hours a day, 60 minutes an hour, using one tiny minute should not hurt a lot.

and also because, the reason why you got through all the hardships of your life and attain your peaceful life on the surface, other than your own hardwork, may be also because out there in the sea, another surface fish once prayed for your happiness.

1 minute a day... it is not too much right?