Interview with God (unknown author)
With my newly acquired title as a journalist, I decided to strike a high note.
"Come in," God said to me, "so, you would like to interview Me?"
"If you have the time," I said.
I saw a smile and heard: "My time is called eternity and is enough to do everything; what questions do you have in mind to ask me?"
"None that are new to you." And so I posed my first question.
"What's the one thing that surprises you most about humankind?" I asked.
The answer came:
- "That they get bored of being children, are in a rush to grow up, and then long to be children again.
- That they lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health.
- That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live neither for the present nor the future.
- That they live as if they will never die, and they die as if they had never lived..."
I felt my hands being held and we were silent. After a long period, I said, "May I ask you another question? And I heard myself say:
"If you were a parent, what would you ask your children to do for the new year?"
The reply started with a smile.
"To learn that...
- They cannot make anyone love them. What they can do is to let themselves be loved.
- It takes years to build trust, and a few seconds to destroy it.
- What is most valuable is not what they have in their lives, but who they have in their lives.
- It is not good to compare themselves to others. There will be others better or worse than they are.
- A rich person is not one who has the most, but is one who needs the least.
- They should control their attitudes, otherwise their attitudes will control them.
- It only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in persons we love, and that it takes many years to heal them.
- One forgives by practising forgiveness.
- There are persons that love them dearly, but simply do not know how to show their feelings.
- Money can buy everything but happiness.
- While at times they may be entitled to be upset, that does not give them the right to upset those around them.
- Great dreams do not require great wings, but a landing gear to achieve.
- True friends are scarce, he/she who has found one has found a true treasure.
- It is not always enough that they be forgiven by others, but that they forgive themselves.
- They are masters of what they keep to themselves and slaves of what they say.
- They shall reap what they plant; if they plant gossip they will harvest intrigues, if they plant love they will harvest happiness.
- True happiness is not to achieve their goals but to learn to be satisfied with what they already achieved.
- Happiness is a decision. They decide to be happy with what they are and have, or die from envy and jealousy of what they lack.
- Two people can look at the same thing and see something totally different.
- Those who are honest with themselves without considering the consequences go far in life.
- Even though they may think they have nothing to give, when a friend cries with them, they find the strength to appease the pain.
- By trying to hold on to love ones, they very quickly push them away; and by letting go of those they love, they will be side by side forever.
- Even though the word "love" has many different meanings, it loses value when it is overstated.
- They can never do something extraordinary for Me to love them; I simply do.
- The shortest distance they could be from Me is the distance of a prayer."
