On Rainbows and Judgement Days

A rainbow appeared on the sky and the kid asked the teacher why every time we see the rainbow, we feel extremely happy.

The teacher replied that because it means that life is colourful and is something we should be happy about.

The boy asked: why don't people wear the colourful shirts everyday then?

The teacher replied: Because if one wears a rainbow-coloured clothes, it means that one cannot be trusted.

The boy asked: "isn't life about being happy then? Why do people insist of wearing the same boring shirt everyday then?"

The teacher replied that: it is because adults have to work and do other boring things- just so you can be happy and think rainbows are wonderful.

The boy asked:Why does my mom and my dad looks so happy when wear black then- the rainbow doesn't have black right- especially after they have a dinner outside? I am not happy when I see a rainy or dark sky, I am happy when I see the blue sky and rainbow.

The teacher replied: well, they are used to the colour i supposed.

The boy replied: you are wearing black today- but you are cheerful and does all adults like black or dark colours.

The teacher: well,... talk to your mom and dad on this.

Sometimes, we confused the cup or plate from the things that we drink or eat. We forget that we eat or drink the food or liquid and not the cup. The substance could be odourless, colourless and might even taste good even but we wouldn't know the effects until much later.

What we drink or eat from doesn't say whether you are a good, bad or hardworking person- it is what we do, and how we do that says so. Morals is an absolute- good or bad- does not derive from categories. What is permissible is not necessarily right as well. What is permissible gives you nothing more than popular approval. Choice is not a right but an entitlement- the choices that one makes makes you, it makes you free-er but it doesn't make you necessarily better.

There are no absolute power now only because the fallibility of man but the fallibility is not just on the absolute but on the individual, on the people and on everyone now. The freedom is therefore not a right but an entitlement. If you want it, you have to earn it.

And if you don't earn it, religion don't judge you, the state won't judge you, the law won't judge you. Someone will- that I can reassure you- just not now.