About Desperation
Desperate people do desperate things. It’s amazing how old people respond to religious ideas once they face the end of life. They begin to fear death and seek to be immortalized. But desperation knows no age or income. Desperation has as many reasons as sin in general. But for those of us who don’t fear death, there is no desperation. We take each day as a blessing. We are thankful to just be alive. Desperation may set in if one knows one’s time is limited. Desperation is a way to argue with the inevitable. I am far from a desperate old person. I am waiting for the arrival of the Messiah and sometimes that waiting taxes my patience. But I never live in desperation while waiting. I simply don’t worry about death or dying, but often wonder how long I have to wait for the Messiah to come. Desperate people feel they must do something in order to survive. The poor get desperate for money so the...