Saturday, April 25, 2009
one day back in camp while i was talking to my friends, one of my campmates unknowingly said to me " wah give u die (给你死) and unknowingly for me too, i replied to him " im not afraid of death, only afraid of having not lived my life . " (不怕死,只怕没活过)I do not not why i was so prompted to reply in such a way but it just comes naturally to me. life and death is but a process that we all, of who are born, must go through. And this particular line, sets me thinking more. what good must life be in order to really live through it ? there is no right or wrong to this question , as each and every individual one of us views through life differently.
water , takes up any form of container it is given in. soft as it is but still able to do large damage.
we all, are like water; formless, but taking on the shape of the container that we are living in.
such is life, such versatile yet limited by the boundaries we are set to live in.
so lets not complain about life but instead be like water, flow along with it and the damage are little. go against the currents and you'll only find yourself struggling. and maybe by then one may not fear death, for he / she had already lived the life.
a few years back i was at kolam ayer csc playing volleyball, i do not know why but some how i just cant seem to spike the ball properly. my palms couldnt go in full contact with the ball and therefore i cant seem to control the direction i wan to hit the ball to. and thus a senior peer of mine , hong wen , (40) enlightened me. " relax your body, especially your arms." simple logic. i tried it and true enough i could hit the ball better. it was then i realised the importance of relaxing your body. this not only applies to just playing sports but to many other things as well.
a few days ago i was reading this quote from bruce lee " the more relaxed your muscles are, the more energy can flow through it. using brute force will only cause opposite effects"
only then did i realise the effects of relaxing your muscles
what you give is not what you get
In order to gain something, you must give up something of equivalent value. this particular sentence holds truth to many things that can apply to us. you want to earn money, thus u have to work hard for it. and by working hard, you give your time , and energy, in return u get your paycheck. i name this, the Law of Equivalent Trade.but however. it doesnt seem to apply to everything that we want to gain. you can give your all to the person you love, be there for them during bad times and all. you could have given the whole world to your loved one, and yet all you got back is ignorance. okay maybe at the start u may think that its worth it, and time will change people, but as time goes on, you'll probably get sick and tired. why ? that is simply because for all the things that you had given up for you dont really got back what u THINK you deserved.
This, produces an negative thinking in your mind and thus, u start to hate and detest. all because your emotional needs , and maybe physical needs , are not fulfilled. Thus, you begin searching for alternatives. searching for something which u think deserved you more.
inspired by nature.
Oneday I was so down and out, everything just seems to be so wrong, okay so it isnt the end of the world for me yet. I couldn’t stop thinking. Took a afternoon nap, and during it, it stormed in my area, I woke up in the evening, probably about 6 plus and see the setting sun out again, but the other side of the sky so still as gloomy. You could say half of the sky is grey and drizzling , and the other half, glorious sunshine.
I hopped onto my bicycle and rode out. Looked up into the sky in awe. Hardly in singapore u can see a full blown rainbow right above your head, and I just did. The rays of the setting sun shone directly at the grey clouds and the reflection of lights on the water droplets hanging in the air created the full blown rainbow over the landscape. I stopped by the traffic light, mesmerized by this beauty. Even strangers around me are taking photos of the rainbow. Somehow or rather I don seem so down and out anymore.
That rainbow admist the darken part of the sky some how inspired me. And I thought, “ yes! That’s it ! nature is taking its course. The sky can be dark, but the rainbow can still be there.
Be like nature my friend. “
I was working in this warehouse sale with friend of mine, Vio, a 20 odd plus lady married with children. As expected in singapore context, any warehouse sales is bound to have like the whole world attending. It was crowded as hell. There was this mother who was shopping for shoes and her child suddenly went bonkers and cried whilst sitting on the floor. I was near them but I didn’t know what was happening to the child. However, the cries were extremely annonying and loud. How irritating it was. And I told vio “ wah I feel like slapping this kid “ well I guess anyone would want to. Vio turned to me and said “don blame the child ! blame the parents for not taking care of the child!” later on that day as I was on my way home I thought about this incident. What vio said was so true, when we see a child cry in the streeting, we sort of blame it for being noisy, irritating, bla bla bla. But how can we blame such innocent adolences who don’t really know much about this life of theirs? Instead isnt it their parents who should be taking on the blame instead? The blame of not taking the child well enough. So, next time u see a child crying, think again.
I once read an article on the internet, saying in the world of phillipines, the poor would queue up behind restaurents at the end of the day to collect for chicken bones. What they would do is that they will crush the chicken bones into powder form and then boil it with the soup. The chicken bones would give them the nutrients they need to survive since they cant really find much food out there, or probably don have the money to buy. Now few years ago in singapore, ppl are queueing outside macdonalds to buy hello kitty. What in the blue hell is this world becoming? So the next time you bite on that barbequed wing, think again before you throw it away.
Write with no regret
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