{"id":1509,"date":"2005-12-08T21:16:02","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T13:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2005-12-08T21:16:02","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T13:16:02","slug":"roller-coaster-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/roller-coaster-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Roller Coaster Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did not expect for bad things to happen<\/p>\n<p>Or daily life that&#8217;s full of immorality, violence, inhumanity, and greed as it&#8217;s displayed in newspaper, magazines, or television. There&#8217;s isn&#8217;t something good appearantly. Wherever i turn my eyes or ears, or even nose&#8230;it&#8217;s a crazy world i&#8217;m living\u00a0 in.<\/p>\n<p>What a writer wrote in today&#8217;s column is very correct. Singapore has come back to where it began. In the old days when crime, gambling, prostitution, and transmitted disease\u00a0are phenomena&#8230;after the many years of progress to clean, safe, and protected\u00a0haven&#8230;.Now we have the rising number of HIV-positive children &amp; wives, Crazy Horse show, teens more open about pre-marital sex, and super Casino that&#8217;s called Integrated resort.<\/p>\n<p>This world is certainly not a better world than last year or many years ago, or even last century. There&#8217;s more war, more crime, more of immorallity, and seems to me&#8230;getting worse. Apahty and intolerance, self-centeredness and hipocryzy&#8230;the list just too long.<\/p>\n<p>Where this world will go? Where all these people that don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re doing will go? One day\u00a0they will wake up, and just repeat the things they&#8217;re doing\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.tabulas.com\/ik\/smilies\/yellow\/sad.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0Where will the sane people go? They&#8217;re either become insane or follow the insane&#8230;no wonder&#8230;the moment u lose ur integrity, the moment u tolerate wrong, the moment u let\u00a0go ur principal&#8230;u&#8217;ll reap confusion and going to destroy u<\/p>\n<p>in light of all these thoughts&#8230;and things happened in my individual life\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.tabulas.com\/ik\/smilies\/yellow\/smile.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>, i remember a Chinese song that sweet to my\u00a0ear and soothing my aching soul.\u00a0Quite sad my friend hasn&#8217;t give me the translation and words. The title is &#8220;There&#8217;s A God&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great comfort, in the midst of all the chaos.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s A God. A Powerful God. That created the Universe. Yet compassionate and loving, to stoop and look down on Earth. He has both the power to act, and the love to care. Despite all the chaos and disorder. Never forget, there is God.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.tabulas.com\/ik\/smilies\/yellow\/smile.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not expect for bad things to happen Or daily life that&#8217;s full of immorality, violence, inhumanity, and greed as it&#8217;s displayed in newspaper, magazines, or television. There&#8217;s isn&#8217;t something good appearantly. Wherever i turn my eyes or ears, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/roller-coaster-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[183,332],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comforted","tag-gods-presence","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1147,"url":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/life-is-unfair-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1509,"position":0},"title":"Life is unfair (2)","author":"clay","date":"February 14, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I woke up in the middle of nite, and cried. 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