Hippie Colors

There was a front page article in The Inquirer and a cover story in Time Magazine which talked about Mother Teresa’s doubts about the existence of God. I felt that this was natural given the fact that she had invested her whole life and sacrificed a lot in the belief that there was a God and that this God was calling on her to go against the natural grain of modern day existence. I suppose the more she invested and the more she gave up, the more she wondered whether her investments and sacrifice were worth it and the more she wondered whether or not the beliefs in whose name she made her investments and sacrifices had any basis to begin with.

I suppose this is true for all of us and all the investments we make which may account for the life cycle crises we face whether this be the early life crisis (anxiety about where we will make investments in terms of a career), a mid-life crisis (should I go further down this road?) or an end-life crisis (was it all worth it? Have I gone as far as I could?). Of course, since a lot of us make conventional investments, the crises we face are much less muted compared to the crisis faced by Mother Teresa who made unconventional investments. At least we can take comfort in the fact that other people have made similar investments (so we rarely ask if that investment was worth it or had any basis but our curse is that we end up asking if we have gone far enough, especially relative to others who made similar investments).

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