About Christianity

my company had a tree-planting day recently, just last week. to me tree-planting campaign, tree-planting day etc, is just a waste of my time. utterly pointless. utterly unconstructive. and finally, very fake, so fake it makes the people almost like a hypocrite.

why?

humans cut down so much trees everyday for resources. paper, wood, construction...etc alot of things need wood. and so we cut down trees. and then we plant trees. we see tree-planting day, the people just plant a few trees, and they say it is giving back to the earth. i mean, you take down one whole forest of trees, plant maybe 10 trees, and say it is giving back to the earth? who are you kidding?

maybe i shall say it in a smaller scale. everyone who works in an office knows how much paper we waste everyday. i admit i waste paper too. one email sent to 10 people will result in the printing of 10 exact copies of the same email for filing purposes. 1 printing error in a document will result in the whole stack of documents already printed out to be shredded.

so my company has this tree-planting day. i was very amused, and yet felt they were acting like hypocrites. my company wasted a lot of paper, as all companies do. meaning, indirectly we contributed to the cutting down of many trees. our tree-planting day, i did not go down to the little 'garden' or 'field' to plant a tree. as i said, don't waste my time. i saw a few people carry pots of trees. small trees in a pot. that is our tree-planting day. so, for cutting down who-knows-how-many-trees, my company, in a valiant effort to save the earth for the sake of the future society, decided to plant a few trees in a pot and put them in the office.

you get what i am trying to say?

moral of the story? in life, we always do things like that. just like the people, we all are hypocrites. we do bad things, or nasty things, or sinful things. and then, sometimes, or most of the times, we do little things to 'make up' for it. let me give you an example that many of us are guilty of.

for 364 days a year, we don't care about our mother. we don't bother what she thinks or what she does. sometimes we scold her and shout at her, sometimes we ignore her. sometimes we find her irritating. sometimes we find her naggy. sometimes we feel she don't understand at all what life is all about. sometimes we think she should just keep quiet and do her own stuffs. the list goes on. need i say more? and then on Mother's Day, we buy something, celebrate it, and say thanks to our mother for raising us up to be a good child. the very next day, everything return to normal.

now you tell me... how many of you are guilty of this? is this not like a tree-planting campaign? cut down so much trees and plant a few pots of trees. treat people so badly and on that one day we 'make up' for it. is this not what a hypocrite do? there are many other examples other than this Mother Day's example. if you want, i can give you more.

how about only saying sorry after we take an innocent person to vent our anger at when we are frustrated? or maybe we buy a very very little something to someone whom we had caused a ton of trouble? or maybe in a relationship, you took from the other party a lot of things, and you yourself give 'a lot (very little)' of things back?

what i want to say is, the 'make up' is too pale in comparison to what we took. no, i am not saying the make up have to match or be more than what we took. that is not the point. the point is, we are always not sincere about giving back. we take a lot, and think we give back a lot, when we give back only a little. like the tree-planting, is it really useful? no (to plant that few pots of trees, i guess the paperwork to organize it must have cut down even more trees). in the end, we are only deceiving ourselves. in the end, we are only wallowing in a pool where hypocrites are and think we are righteous, that we are good. do you get my point?

sincerity. that is what i found out. everything we do is insincere. you saw a friend outside and you say hi. you say to meet up for dinner one day. do you mean it? do you really mean it? you say sorry to a friend. do you mean it? or do you want to just want him to stop bothering you? say thanks. but is that what you truely feel? or is it just a formality?

do everything with sincerity. it is important. of course, i am also one of the hypocrites. everybody is. it is just a matter of who is worse. everybody is a hypocrite. there are no exceptions. if you are going to slam me for this statement, don't bother. i will just delete away your comment. don't talk to me about free speech in my blog and website. because like you, i am also in that puddle of insincerity.