No, this is not a funny post. It's just something I was thinking while sitting at work. It may make some people laugh but I'm serious (I really am). This is just a light way to connect ideas, leaving all logic behind for a moment. Keep reading and you will see…
I like apple juice. I think it is the best drink the world (next to water). Sometimes, when I'm having a bad day, a cold bottle of apple juice makes me feel happy and relieved. For some reason, cold apple juice does something to me that no other drink can do. It's weird, I know.
There are times when I sit around thinking about how great it would be to have a nice cold bottle of apple juice to make a good day even better. I even look forward to the moment when I can leave work and go home to a fridge full of apple juice and drink my heart away. Apple juice is cool like that.
Now, if I suddenly didn't have apple juice, I would be a bit disheartened. Initially I would feel the gloominess of life without apple juice but eventually, I am sure that I would find something to take its place---maybe something like pineapple juice. And I think that's how some religious people are about god.
Some religious people actually need god in the same way that I need apple juice. It makes them feel good and gives them something to look forward to. Like, if I work all day, at some point I will get thirsty. It's a beautiful thing to know that there is a fridge somewhere with cold apple juice calling my name. I assume that's sort of like god- we know we all have to die some day so it's nice to know that there is a great, welcoming god and heaven somewhere when that time comes. I get it.
Also, it's nice to have something, a god, an idea, or in my case a bottle of apple juice, that can raise our spirits when we are down. God does that for many religious people. It's all making sense now….
And even if the concept of god were to suddenly disappear from society, many religious people would probably find something/someone else to take its place…like my pineapple juice.
So, in the end it's all about what makes people happy, even if it doesn't make sense to some. I know plenty of people who hate apple juice and can't understand how I can drink it. And for them, that's cool. For me on the other hand, apple juice is a wonderful thing and those other people's hatred for it will never change my perception. I guess it is kind of like god. I don't get down with the concept of god and won't pray to the unknown, unseen, but that's me. But I will, however, drink apple juice. So a religious person has god, and I have apple juice. Simple as that.
*I know that all religious people don't necessarily 'need' a concept of god...but this post is talking about those who do (which is why I say "some religious people").
**and for anyone who thinks I'm trying to be funny, I'm really not. I have this crazy love affair with apple juice that no one understands but me...seriously. And as logical of a person as I am, i fall short in logic when it comes to apple juice.
2 comments
Thumbs up! Now see, that's what I appreciate about you. You're always willing to step outside a situation and relate to both sides of an argument and then communicate your ideas in an unoffensive way (which is more than what can be said for a lot of people).
Unfortunately there are those who don't understand the value of intelligent discourse that doesn't resort to name-calling or negative judgments. In my opinion, we as writers (and as individuals) bear the responsibility of lifting others up instead of tearing them down. Great post, Mz. Jonezy.
Jesus cool like that, Mohammed cool like that, Buddha cool like that, Krishna cool like that, prophets are cool like that, poets are cool like that, blacks are cool like that, whites are cool like that, purples are cool like that, everybody cool like that. . . That being apple juice.
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