"Let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No?' (Matt. 5:37)

The quest for justice and objectivity, meaning and sensibility, truth and reality, unconditional love and pity draws us towards divine wisdom, which has to become yet principle of life and perspective for us.

Unfortunately, superficiality, show off, vain pride, and cheap popularity are the dominating standards of today's society - governments, political parties, religious institutions, cultural and social organizations all suffer from this detrimental disease. The human race seems to have lost its moral compass and is driven by egoistic motivations.

It is so silly when people try to sell their dime for a dollar. I feel bad for them, because no matter how hard they try to conceal their vanity, all their efforts end in smoke in the light of truth and reality. Vanity is a gap that you cannot fill with money, influence, family name, impressive speech, pathos, puffed-up words or unnatural gestures. Everything is revealed the moment you open your mouth, because the tongue delivers the message of the heart.

I stopped to listen to orators, who talk about lofty ideas from high podiums but have no idea what happens down the street, where old people beg for a piece of bread, women sell their body, men deal drugs and children are exploited. I can't respect those who preach something from the holy altar, and practice something else in real life - double standards are not good example for those who seek the truth.

I can't bear over-exaggeration, politically motivated publicity and making a big deal of nothing - "much ado about nothing" as Shakespeare puts it. That's annoying. My understanding is that when you are entrusted with particular duties or responsibilities, you should perform them to the best of your ability in a reasonable timeframe. You do what you are supposed to do - period! Why do people try to get extra credit for doing what they have to do? It's beyond my understanding. After all, honest work and good results don't need trumpeting. I realize that in order to be successful in this world you have to make friends with Mamon, play the politics and be good in the eyes of your earthly lords. Why should we flatter? Till when should we pretend and accept the wrong for right, when the Lord instructs us very clearly "Let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No?' (Matt. 5:37) How can we possibly think that discrediting someone exalts us, and that, by eliminating our competitors we become the winner and, thus, we secure our place in this world? Baloney.

This is an absurd - our life is an absurd, because we are not where God wants us to be and we are not doing what pleases Him. Instead, we have created this absurd for us full of fake values, empty words, lie, hypocrisy, flattery, materialism, and pride.

We need spiritual awakening, an "occupy" kind of movement, something shocking, thrilling, something inevitable like the day of judgment, or heavenly order mandated upon us, which would force reset and realign the whole concept of life to the normal. Yes, mandated upon us and inevitable, because if it were a choice, those who created this chaos would simply avoid it. I don't trust the free will, which for some reason chooses the sin instead of grace. I want God to be our guide in his paths of righteousness.