To a Rationally-Responsible You

Written by Phebe Rejas

   
     Life indeed is an untold mystery. Its mystery maintains life’s beauty and amazement. Life is the most beautiful mystery, none of the most genius mind can fathom. Geniuses got no way to comprehend its mystery. All they can do is to keep on wondering while keeping amazed on the mystic beauty on how and why it is created. This just goes to prove that no one can surpass what God can do and no one can fully understand what God has done.

        God may have left all this mysteries on our shoulders so that we may exercise our responsibility to think things over and put meaningful meanings towards it. Moreover, it has served to keep every human being appreciate what He has perfectly done so that through appreciation, we may put value to every single mystery that He inputs to life. As we value even the most little part of this mystery, we begin to realize how God put so much value in every little thing of his creation. Thus, we ought to be gratefully responsible of what God cares so much about. For this responsibility is not an obligation we carry in our hands but a priceless privilege we need to value. Everything that is valued ought not to be abused.

        Scientists may be able to create robots and other superb inventions that continually amazed all races but no one can never create nor replicate what God has perfectly created. And that’s the human life. Who would have imagined how meticulously and unbelievably life has been formed? Even a single sperm cell is especially operated to form just like how machines are mechanically made in factories. It is made like fully-equipped armor prepared to engage in a battle just to win out a single life. And it’s just amazing to note how a single egg cell prepared itself for the coming of a sperm cell. How does it know that a sperm cell is coming? It even signals a calling to communicate with the sperm cells. Extraordinarily, who would have thought that even before life forms, a momentum calling for a life had already been transmitted and communicated through a mysterious force that is happening inside a women’s vessel? One thing is clear about these things. Life is so special that it had to be made in an ultimately special way. If only all people would realize how a single life was so specially formed, then probably, all will treat life so special that no one could not afford to kill it nor carelessly and irresponsibly induce to create one.

       Every little thing existed with a great responsibility to accomplish. Even a single sperm cell and egg cell know of its specific responsibility. And it even seeks its way out to achieve its responsibility. A single Bulbourethral gland achieves its responsibility by producing a fluid that helps to lubricate the urethra for spermatozoa to pass through, neutralizing traces of acidic urine in the urethra, and helps flush out any residual urine or foreign matter so that the sperm can survive. This proves to show that every single part of a man’s body is given with responsibility they never failed to do just to accomplish its purpose. Well, how about the thinking-human itself?

        Man could not claim his own body for his own body works for his own responsibly. Without man’s dictations, the body’s organs, bodily systems and all other parts never failed to function on its own as its responsibility. What man can only claim is his own thinking. It is his own judgments. It’s intriguing to ponder if the thinking men had really functioned out for its responsibility. Have we accomplished our responsibility as thinking men? We can never underestimate a single sperm or egg cell for all parts of the body (including man’s brain of course) because they are equally given with responsibility. Though equally equipped with responsibilities, the brain is placed above to prove that it plays a higher responsibility. A single sperm cell is responsible for a single formation of life but man, the brain itself, is responsible for the sperm. Thus, man is still responsible for every life that forms.

         Both men and women are equally accountable for this responsibility. But in terms of reproduction, men are more likely accountable of a life’s formation but women are more accountable for a life’s full development. It appears like men have lighter responsibility than women in this aspect. In forming a life, men’s contribution is just the sperm but women’s are her body. Women are the ones who will carry and sustain the life for 9 months before it is fully developed. Thus, women are risking their health or life itself. Men should realize of the fact that women have bigger responsibility in order to sustain the formation of life thus their pregnancy ought to be fully supported and nourished. Women’s lives are put into crucial status when they deliver a child or even when they just experienced the painful labor. If only all people will realize how much mothers risk her life carrying us for nine months and enduring all the pain and struggles until we will be brought out into this world, then maybe, mothers will not suffer from hard-headed and unrespectful children.

      Regarding marital life, husbands should fully respect and care for their wives especially during pregnancies because pregnancy is not as easy as anyone could think of. The fact that a mother’s health is being risked during pregnancy is enough to make men realize that family planning is a crucial need to care for the wife’s welfare. Men are considered to be the head of the family that’s why they have the bigger responsibility in creating decisions that could promote the best welfare not just for his wife but for his future kids itself.

        One thing should be considered in all aspects of human life. The thinking being’s responsibility has the greatest power. It has the power to kill or create life. Both are very easy to do but of the two, creating a life is more of crucial thing to consider. Creating a human being does not end to that. How you cared, nurtured and fully equipped it with all the necessities of life will determine if you have form a good creation. It is so to speak that the “soon to be parent’s” greatest manifestation of love is how they care so much for the adequate welfare for their future children. After all, we are all just instruments of God. We are just vessels so He can create life. God still dictates not to create, to create and to kill if He wants to. (This proves why not everyone is capable of reproducing.) But still, He created as human beings so we, ourselves can take part of this human creation. We are rational. We are favored and privileged. We are special that unlike other creations existing, we are free to do anything, except to abuse or destroy this freedom. And freedom in procreation is not a mere freedom to enjoy but a freedom to get responsible of.