Times Of Swaziland: SYSTEMS COME AND GO

SYSTEMS COME AND GO
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Editor on 08/04/2024 08:20:00


Sir,
I think we can all observe that this life has nothing that is permanent. Things
come and go; it doesn’t matter what the dimension of life is. All things seem
to abide by the law of impermanence of all things. The ancients have said
there’s time for everything. In a language, we say, of each and everything:
‘It came to pass’. This phrase has relevancy to every human event, activity
or happening. In fact it relates to all things in this life. Anything which was
once not, but now is, will at some point in time be not. It would have come to
pass. Things that never come to pass are things that have always been – things
that do not have a beginning; and things that do not have a beginning are, by
necessary implication, without end. Things that have a beginning have, by
necessary implication, an end.
Season
You might have heard the saying that some people come to your life for a reason,
for a season, or for a lifetime. I want to believe that this saying may also be
amplified to things, and we may say that some things come into our lives for a
reason, for a season or for a lifetime. You might have heard of people who
change careers after being renowned in one for many years. One may change from
being a doctor to becoming a life coach; from being a renowned legal
practitioner to being a farmer. The same holds for systems of governance. When
something or someone comes into our lives for a lifetime it doesn’t mean that
it will be there for all time and eternity or forever, but it means what it
says, for ‘a lifetime,’ nothing more, nothing less. Lifetime itself means
temporality – it means that it shall also come to pass. When we truly
understand that in reality things come to pass we will no longer cling to things
that do not help.