Pounding The Keyboard

It's a wonderful Monday morning. You woke up raring to work after slacking for the past few days. You vowed to wreck your computer keyboard by pounding on it non-stop. You're even ready to skip meals today. You then happily turned your computer on. But something seemed wrong because your computer wasn't... responding and it seemed... DEAD! No, it couldn't be. It was full of life just last night. What happened? Heat stroke? Heart attack? Aneurysm? Suicide? You tried to save it--- CPR, defibrillator, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, black magic, but it remained unresponsive. There's still no pulse. It's ( gasp!) dead! Could it be resurrected? It couldn't remain dead, you've got files in there, files that you've been working on for weeks. Such idiocy, you mumbled to yourself. The computer had been showing symptoms of a debilitating illness these past few weeks, yet you fail to save your files in a separate disk. If Jesus saves, why can't...

             U2 are known for songs that tackle religions and among them, my favorite is “Until The End of the World” from Acthung Baby . The song is about Judas sort of castigating Jesus (after the last supper) for being a killjoy, for sulking and for being depressed (who wouldn’t be?) when everyone (the apostles) around them is having fun, although later in the song, Judas will be heard expressing his regrets and sorrow for taking the money (the thirty pieces of silver) and betraying him in the garden with a kiss—which broke Jesus’ heart.       Yesterday’s the start of Holy Week, I really am not religious but it won’t hurt to be prayerful this week, especially with those frequent earthquakes that are getting really scary now, earthquakes that seem to signal—to doomsayers and pessimists at least— the, well, end of the world. 

I was listening to Beatles’ music in my cell phone when this song played, “Happiness Is A Warm Gun,” which was written by John Lennon. I don’t know about John but happiness for some is: your 20-month old nephew looking back at you and smiling and making faces at you. receiving a text message from your 6-year old niece asking you what you are doing. having a dream about your deceased mother where she's alive and well. someone cooking you your favorite meal. killing a mosquito before it can bite you. hearing a good joke. reaching a new level in your currently favorite Android game. listening to your beloved's guffaws which all sound lovely to you. a bloodless shaving. your computer successfully booting up after a third try. seeing a new writer rejoice about his first approved short story. finally learning the title of that elusive wonderful song. a 6-7 hours of sleep. early morning run.  eating your favorite fruit. a new episode of your favorite TV serie...