When your life is threatened...

I just watched a movie of Athol Fugard. He continuously asks about life in the big continent of mine, Africa. It made me wonder (that and all the happenings the last few weeks) - what is the natural reaction if your life is threatened... in any kind of way - be it religion, your physical being, your job? Do you run into the trees and hide, eat more bananas (even if they are green), do you look up all your enemies from the past and try to find the reason why they are enemies? (I tend to do the latter).

I thin it left me dumbstruck... not because of the threat, but maybe just of the mere misconception I had of life. Life is nothing really, being filled by meaningful (or meaningless) contents that we so absolutely love to surround us by.

...and in a flash it can be over... and the content deleted. Maybe the religion has the answer when they so pious claims that one can not take anything into the past life... I disagree. You take yourself. And that is more tan enough... and no regards to what you believe, it is YOU that will be in heaven, or YOU that will be recycled into the world again...

When I used to live in NAMIBIA I learned a valuable lesson... that I only fully understand now....many years later. You will not be judged (by GOD, by yourself, by you Peers) by what people do to you, but by your reaction to it.

Newton said: every action has a reaction...so - how will I react on a threat? Or do I keep quiet and watch... how a new life begins?