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Sunday, March 12, 2006

Life After Life After Life?

hmm.. I'm reading a book, "The Unbearble Lightness of Being" - Milan Kundera. I find the book rather interesting but I shall type more abt it after I finish it, which will take some time since i already took 2 weeks and I haven completed it. My time seem to be wasting away. Nonetheless, this is something I just read:

"Somewhere out there in space there was a planet where all people would be born again. They would be fully aware of the life they had spent on earth and all the experience they had amassed. And perhaps htere was still another planet, where we would all be born a third time with the experience of our first two lives. And perhaps there was yet more and more planets, where mankind would be born one degree (one life) more mature...... Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concept of pessimism and optimism with full justification: an optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise." - unquote

I'm not going to argue against this theory even though it is flawed. Assuming it is true, I'm a pessimist. People forget. So what if they have the past experiences with them? They will forget and eventually commit the mistakes over and over again. Rather than 5 chances, we have 5 replays.

On this note, I remember another quote somewhere in the book about living life. We only live it once. There is no past experience to guide us in life, only ourselves and our instinct. It may be sad if along the way we make the wrong choices and stuffs or the whole world just suddenly seem to come crashing down on us but the pt is that we only have got this one life. There is no time to be depressed, only time to move on and make the best of what is there at any pt in time.

haha.. In view of the recent statistics about suicide rates, I hereby urge (haha.. sounds very funny, rite? coming from me) all of u to live ur lives no matter how bad it is at any pt. You are only living this for the first time, remember? You do not know what the next day will hold, all may jolly well be good by the next sunrise. And you are only living this once, are you going to lose everything by committing suicide? Or are you going to take the gamble and live on? So keep on moving and make the best of everything.

Lastly, as I was commenting to another fren, if there is a need, call your fren and thrash out everything. If you are thinking of committing suicide and in case you don't see it, this is the need I'm talking about!!! Do not, I repeat, Do Not waiting until you are standing on the roof-top then you call your fren and tell him/her that you are jumping.

On a separate note, have you been woken from a dream like being given a tight slap and you ask yourself, "why the hell did I find that dream sweet in the first place?" My Answer: You are the furthest away from the thing you like most.

The Origin. 3/12/2006 09:41:00 pm

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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