food 4 d soul

The temptation to forget is a SIN.

This was shared to us by Father Robert Reyes, who led the first Friday mass this noon. He reminded us not to bury but rather always remember the past no matter how good or bad it was. Why? Because we can learn a lot from it and it can guide us in our future.
So there, i just realize that i'm one hell of a sinner for trying to forget some of my past, huh!

If this is a man

You who live safe

In your warm houses,
You who find,

returning in the evening,
Hot food and friendly faces:
Consider if this is a man
Who works in the mud
Who does not know peace
Who fights for a scrap of bread
Who dies because of a yes or no.
Consider if this is a woman,
Without hair and without name
With no more strength to remember,
Her eyes empty and her womb cold
Like a frog in winter.
Meditate that this came about:
I commend these words to you.
Carve them in your hearts
At home, in the street,
Going to bed, rising;
Repeat them to your children,
Or may your house fall apart,
May illness impede you,
May your children turn their faces from you.

A poem by Primo Levi in memoriam of the Holocaust victims.