Too Little Too Late

 

When it's Too Little Too Late

Armageddon. Blunders. Catastrophe. Disasters. Exhaustions. These are the ABCDE’s in our lives, sometimes, hitting us hard every few days, every week or as frequent as it would till our morale gets shot down, till our spirits crumble, till fuel tank gets almost emptied.

Life without those ABCDE’s is not life per se. if we scrutinize the landscape, whether it’s all about global warming, terrorism, poverty, corruption or even this Covid-19 global pandemic, you would hear ‘TOO LITTLE TOO LATE’ reverberating all over, as a post mortem. Conversely and sparingly, sometimes it becomes ‘TOO MUCH TOO SOON’ but that becomes part of our future threads of discussion.

Let’s take a leaf with what’s most relevant these days, CORRUPTION and COVID-19. What have we done to arrest the endemic corruption all over the place? Oh yes, some administrative cases have been filed against some ‘small fries’. Oh yes, some ‘unknowns’ and ‘ non-entities’ have been languishing in those decrepit and stinking jails. And that’s TOO LITTLE. How about those running the corrupted tentacles in the corridors of power? And these days, poverty is all over the place. And this is TOO LATE.

Shifting over to the ongoing NBA Playoffs series between the surprisingly hOt Miami Heat versus the highly favored Boston Celtics, the powerhouse team of the Celtics romped off with margins as high as twenty [20] points and by the time Miami Heat ignited a rally, it was TOO LITTLE TOO LATE.

Here's a food for thought: "When it's just too little, too late, a losing war and no matter what plans we utilise, it's not good enough and the last resort is too small, too weak to make the difference needed. When your strongholdis infiltrated, your bastion of strength, weakened. You know that you face a true upill struggle, one which you stand almost no chance of overcoming, let alone coming out through alive and well - when a person feels like that, then what?. Unfortunately, this painted scenario is shaping up to be the 'end of the road', another TOO LITTLE TOO LATE.

Back to this Covid-19 pandemic, when did almost everyone took seriously the need for SOCIAL DISTANCING? Even as late as the past few days, in one particular Southeast Asian country, throngs of people converged all because of curiosity to see the white sands dumped in a long polluted shore. And the authorities who should be policing them? They remained incognito.

Back to our lives. At some point, were we ever guilty of being TOO LITTLE TOO LATE? Surely we’ve been guilty of it. I myself, I’d admit I turned bad situations into worse situations simply because what I did and whenever I did, it was TOO LITTLE TOO LATE. Sometimes, we put up walls that inhibit us to take the next step. And this reminds me to quote Isaac Newton: ‘We build too many walls and not enough bridges’. Makes sense?

But until we hit the end of the road, until our Creator calls us for the final judgment, “It’s never late to do the right thing”. Problem is, or rather, the recurring problem over and over again is that we tend to keep waiting, waiting and waiting. As Sarah Strohmeyer said, ‘Sometimes if you wait too long, it’s too late’.