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Monday, January 02, 2006

Fireworks

Read the following in a manga, Bleach, based on my translation as the manga is in chinese. And you probably know the standard of my chinese.

"We are like fireworks.
The journey to the sky, the explosion of colours, and consequently, disperse in all directions."

"If this is the case, at least when the moment arrives, we will not disappear but will stay forever sparkling in the sky."

It is actually the whole train of thought of 1 of the characters in the manga. I shall not go into the fantasy of the manga. Anyway, the character isn't exactly human but the artist likens him to be so.

Personally, I agree with the first part and not the 2nd as I feel that the 2nd is more applicable to that fantasy.

As for the first part, we are constantly upgrading ourselves, working upward in the society we leave in. We work to attain our distinction in PSLE, O levels, Diploma, A levels and Degree (just to name a few), choosing other paths and starting with a career immediately, we work to maintain a stable career and income, we work to buy our house, our cars, starting a family etc.

Then we reach the peak of our lives. Be it, attaining the 5 C's (not the one promoted by ST), just having the basics, giving our lives for voluntary work, seeing our children bring us pride & joy etc. We succeed in our own respective senses.

And finally, we falter due to old age, disease or whatever. Or maybe the new generation has come to take over our job. Then what else do we do but to wait for the moment we disappear forever. Maybe at the stage we will ask ourselves, "How was my life? was it worth living?"
Surely, we will think of the regrets and sacrifices before but we will eventually decide that based on whatever achievements we had, it was worth it. Then we will go on, do whatever we have not done and wait for the moment we disappear.

Our lives seem so alike yet so different. Just like how 2 fireworks can be so different yet are alike in terms of their beauty. Maybe we are all just actors & actresses in a display of fireworks for whoever is watching. Maybe we are just nameless parts of an endless cycle. What does it matter? Shouldn't we all live for the moment when we explode in an array of colours? For that is the beauty of fireworks, of life, isn't it? Nobody likes to see a rocket (is this the name?) that goes into the sky and fails to explode, right?

Ha.. I think my next viewing of fireworks would be even more saddening compared to the past.

Oh.. And I have decided not to talk abt the 5 C's from ST as I don't have particularly strong feelings about them anyway.

The Origin. 1/02/2006 09:20:00 am

quotes

"You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress, prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill. You would lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming, they were so close you could taste them, but eventually you grow up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is its hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely cause almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true." - Dr. Meredith Grey from Grey's Anatomy

'How happy is the little Stone
That rambles in the Road alone,
And doesn't care about Careers
And Exigencies never fears-
Whose Coat of elemental Brown
A passing Universe put on,
And independent as the Sun
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute Decree
In casual simplicity-' - How happy is the little Stone by Emily Dickinson

'This is your last chance.
After this, there is no turning back.
You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.' - Morpheus, The Matrix

'The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
Not because you'll get it, but because you're doomed not to want it if you do.' - Unknown

'There are plenty of people with good intentions who take the wrong actions in the end' - Gundam Seed Destiny

'Life is no straight and easy corridor along
which we must seek our way,
lost and confused, now and again
checked in a blind alley.

But always, if we have faith,
a door will open for us,
not perhaps one that we ourselves
would ever have thought of,
but one that will ultimately
prove good for us.' - A.J.Cronin

"Every life has one true-love snapshot
Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know
No life is a waste.
The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone"

"A man can endure alot if he still has hope." - Clyde T. Ellis

" 'Appreciate It.' 2 simple words. A life span of gratitude." - Cinderella Man

"A boxer enters the ring alone. If knocked down, he alone could pick himself up and keep the fight going." - Cinderella Man

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Jame J. Braddock: I know this isn't what you wanted. But I can't win if you're not behind me.
Mae: I'm always behind you."

"People die in fairy tales all the time." - Max Baer, Cinderella Man

"Maybe sometimes people need to see someone do it so they can do it." - Father Rorick, Cinderella Man

"You always got ot figure you're not the best man in the world, there might be somebody better. That's the way it was. That's the way boxing is. The champion don't always stand up. There's always somebody coming up to take him. That's a part of life." - Jame J. Braddock

"If either man falls through weakness or otherwise, he must get up unassisted" - The Queensbury Rules, No. 4

"All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory" - Motto of the King's Guard in Ancient Greece

"With each passing day in a good marriage, the love for your spouse grow stronger than the day before" - Cinderella Man

"I take responsibility" - President George W. Bush

"Sow a Thought, and you reap an Act;
Sow an Act, and you reap a Habit;
Sow a Habit, and you sow a Character;
Sow a Character, and you reap a Destiny." - Samuel Smiles

"Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt - Shakespeare in Measure of Measure

"What does your heart tell you?" - Aragorn, LOTR

"To an outstretched hand we shall respond with an olive branch, but we shall fight fire with the harshest fire ever." - Israeli PM Ariel Sharon

"To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human. " - The Matrix

"Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright that God may love thee. Speak the truth, always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath." - Balian of Ibelin, Kingdom of Heaven

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." - Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird

"It is not our abilities that show what we truly are... it is our choices." - Dumbledore, Harry Potter

"Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends." - Gandalf, LOTR

"Ohana means family, family means nobody gets left behind. Or forgotten." - Lilo & Stitch

"Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it." - Malcolm Wallace, Braveheart

"Every man dies, not every man really lives." - William Wallace, Braveheart

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