Here's a theological question to start the day. Is it a coincidence the word D-E-V-I-L read backwards is 'Lived'? Should we live our lives to the utmost, or should we think of the hereafter and spend our time cloistered in a church, mosque, synagogue, temple or other places of worship praying for forgiveness? Should we live for the day, or should we save ourselves for the day of judgment?
Sometimes we tend to get too wrapped up in the future, instead of savouring the joy of the present. Instead of pausing for a moment to enjoy what is right in front of us, we are predisposed to gazing into crystal balls and complicating our lives.
In these past seven days, we have had two events that have lifted the profile of Hong Kong as a sporting hub - the Bledisloe Cup and the Hong Kong Sixes which ends today.
Both events bring top-class sportsmen to town. The Bledisloe Cup featured the world's two best teams, the All Blacks and the Wallabies. The Sixes, although not on a par with the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens, is still well-known in cricketing circles and this weekend features some of the best players in the world.
These events deserve our support but sadly the Bledisloe Cup was played in front of only 26,000 fans, leaving large swathes of empty seats in the upper stands of the 40,000-capacity Hong Kong Stadium. That's a shame, because the match was one of the best seen in recent times. It had everything - drama, action and a fairy-tale finish for the Wallabies, who hadn't beaten the All Blacks in 10 previous outings.
When James O'Connor crashed over for the winning try to tie the score at 24-24 and then kicked the conversion, it ended 80 minutes of top-notch action from two sides playing for pride and national honour. This was sport at its best.