FAIRY FLY

    Would have been that most of us were poets, or would-be poets of sorts, that is, -- but now find ourselves mostly preoccupied with things other than poetry or with things we fain somehow attribute to be matters concerning identifiable with the nuances of poetic rhyme and rhythm. We could have chosen to be licensed engineers, too, or registered nurses, doctors, or somebody else other than who we are presently, because to be a poet is  to be impoverished.

   If we measure wealth in terms of the amount or volume of money that we have, then all of us are poor, except for a negligible number of lucky people who struck it rich in this planet. On the other hand, measuring wealth in terms of wisdom or degree of educational attainment would be preposterous if not absurd, as no wealth is enough to satisfy our greed, and the search for learning and education is an unending process, a task, indeed, that we chose to limit upon reaching the doctorate degree. 


   The fact, then, is that, we are all poor, a fact that most of us feign to accept either because reality could smack us right in the face, or we have that bank deposit, or that steady flow of cash into our business account which could burst like a bubble and vanish into thin air at any time without a prior's notice, and this fear jump starts us to begin struggling to be wealthier in terms of more money or in terms of earning  a much superior certificate of   Level of Enlightenment. 

   We think that if we have wealth we can achieve a higher level of education, or that if we are well educated we are guaranteed to be wealthy, and vice-versa. In fact, we may have already equated these two concepts as mutually symbiotic. Conversely, we cannot be rich if we are poorly educated, and we cannot be richly educated if we are financially poor-- facts that characterize the economic demography of the Third World in a circular cumulative causation, but which, of course, admit a lot of exceptions.

   The idiosyncrasy and syndrome of a society that have developed this wealth-wisdom psychology has become apparent in the psycho-social order of things almost anywhere and in most civilizations of the rest of the world. Spiritual enrichment and bureaucratic honesty seem not to suffice for anybody, and most of us give anything up to the extent that nobody in his right mind would ever ambition to be a mere janitor, cobbler, barmaid, or a handyman-- except when you are dead-right-down- there in the gutter. 


   A good number of us profoundly think we must act fast before time catches up with us, life is ephemeral as a fairy fly and only a very few of us have understood that we have been endowed wise and rich, and that human fulfillment finds itself in the  unlimited sharing of this wisdom and wealth that a few of us possess.


   Yes, indeed, blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.