Wealth, power, honor, love… What is
your purpose of life? Where are you heading now? Why Do You Live? As living in
a contemporary society which is rapidly changing day by day, sometimes, we ‘just’
live our lives. In other words, without any specific purposes or values, we
leave ourselves in the flow of the society and meet the social requirements. We
have to know where we do go. Without clear purpose, it is easy to being eroded
by the power of society.
Today,
I’m going to introduce a sermon that was preached in first Sunday after the 9.11.
Though there are not many rhetoric strategies that I can cover, I really want to
cover this film for me and us who is living in a contemporary society. The
sermon’s message is simple: “Run for your lives”. The reverend Carter kept
saying run from all of the evil things, something that obsessed you. Because
this is a sermon by Christians most of its message seems to focus on the God.
However, this sermon can be adapted for all of us without having a status as a
religious people. It alerts us to the purpose of our lives. Sometimes, we
overlook worthy values such as love, duty because it is hard to glance over
those ‘true’ values to catch up with social flows and needs that society forces
us to do. In other words, we live our lives not because of ourselves but for
the society itself. This is why we sometimes forget the true human values. In
the sermon, the reverend commented about the fire fighters and the police
officers who devoted themselves for their duty and for others. Why did they
give their lives? Why did they run to the disasters not run away from? They are
not dumb who do not know worthy of their lives and other social values. The reason
why they did that is simple; they did know what they should do and what they
sacrificed for ‘the true human values’.
It
can be uncomfortable for some people who do not familiar with the church sermon
but from this article, I do not say about the God’s message rather, I want to
look back ourselves what direction we had gone so far. Didn’t we live our lives
well without ignoring the true human values? Where are we going now to wealth,
honor, and other social values? Or the true values of our lives? Run away from
the society and values which forces us to do something for it. Run to
yourselves and values of worth. Do not let yourselves to be catch up with and
eroded by social factors Run and find true values.
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