Revival post : Live, my dear.
I know I've not been blogging lately, and it's all due to my laziness, tight schedule and addiction to Maple. Yes, Maple, amazing no? So anyway, I know it's pretty late, but I just have to pen down my thoughts on the event that shocked the world today - the Earthquake in China.
I saw the pictures, I read the stories, and I felt the emotions of the people in the pictures, the people who wrote the article, and the people who died. I'm not trying to be cheesy, but seriously, I felt a sense of emptiness and sympathy when I saw the pictures of all the dead bodies, emptiness as it showed me how fragile life is, and sympathy as it showed me perfect examples of people who couldn't live long enough to see the generations ahead of them. It tore me apart, and it made me feel so.. humane, for once.
Personally, about a year ago, whenever I read about people dying, hearing news about people surviving a tragedy by going through extreme measures, I'll just go 'wow' and totally forget about it. But now, after encountering a near-death situation, I realised how much fear and agony those people felt at the brink of death, and how much desperation they felt to live again.
Yet, I see people with fully functional bodies, caring friends and families, and a silver spoon fed to their mouth, and all they do is whine about how tough their lives are, and that how they oh so wish to die and be 'free' from the stress and suffering of life. And I question myself - Why oh why, are humans such ironic creatures?
Humans tend to take for granted whatever they have in abundance, yet they treasure what's disappearing right before their very eyes. Yes, we see people down in the streets smoking away, even young people sometimes. And again I ask myself - Why? Why are these people throwing away their lives? Then again we see people in the hospital who're gasping their last breath and giving all their fortune and riches, just to be able to live for a few mere hours more. I felt disgusted at the way humans live nowadays, and the way we throw off this precious gift like it's nothing. It gave me a revelation, a revelation to live.
And hence I end the first post after a long hiatus, please do forgive me if it's quite deranged, since I'm currently having a lot of things on my mind right now.
I saw the pictures, I read the stories, and I felt the emotions of the people in the pictures, the people who wrote the article, and the people who died. I'm not trying to be cheesy, but seriously, I felt a sense of emptiness and sympathy when I saw the pictures of all the dead bodies, emptiness as it showed me how fragile life is, and sympathy as it showed me perfect examples of people who couldn't live long enough to see the generations ahead of them. It tore me apart, and it made me feel so.. humane, for once.
Personally, about a year ago, whenever I read about people dying, hearing news about people surviving a tragedy by going through extreme measures, I'll just go 'wow' and totally forget about it. But now, after encountering a near-death situation, I realised how much fear and agony those people felt at the brink of death, and how much desperation they felt to live again.
Yet, I see people with fully functional bodies, caring friends and families, and a silver spoon fed to their mouth, and all they do is whine about how tough their lives are, and that how they oh so wish to die and be 'free' from the stress and suffering of life. And I question myself - Why oh why, are humans such ironic creatures?
Humans tend to take for granted whatever they have in abundance, yet they treasure what's disappearing right before their very eyes. Yes, we see people down in the streets smoking away, even young people sometimes. And again I ask myself - Why? Why are these people throwing away their lives? Then again we see people in the hospital who're gasping their last breath and giving all their fortune and riches, just to be able to live for a few mere hours more. I felt disgusted at the way humans live nowadays, and the way we throw off this precious gift like it's nothing. It gave me a revelation, a revelation to live.
And hence I end the first post after a long hiatus, please do forgive me if it's quite deranged, since I'm currently having a lot of things on my mind right now.
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To everyone : I'm sorry! I know I have not been a faithful blogger, it's just that sleep is much more tempting. ._.
minren : OF COURSE I DO!! How'd you find my blog man!? :D
tian and saddist : Hahahahah... ha ._. maybe next time.
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