Thursday, November 04, 2004
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a dear friend of mine wrote this... he doesn't have a blog and he didn't wanna start one so i said i'll help him post it up on my blog. besides, we have mutual friends lah... and with this piece that he wrote, he has finally made peace with that someone and i guess he has finally left that darker period of his life behind and i'm really happy for him. uhmm... and i feel what he wrote is quite true... so enjoy...
I’m sure lotsa you out there have pondered what life is all about. While this might not answer your question, I do hope it provides some insights. Before I start, please switch off your brains and just see what I have to write with an open mind.
Life is a destructive process. Everything that lives is destroyed. All things created are meant to be destroyed. Morbid huh? But its kinda true if you think about it. How many times in our lives have we created or made something or found something only for it to be robbed from us, taken away? A flower grows only for it to wilt. Fruit grows for it to be eaten. Igneous rocks cool from magma only for it to be weathered and eroded. Happiness grows only for it to turn to sorrow. Even as we speak, even as you read this… YOU are DECOMPOSING. So why am I saying all this? What then can the meaning of life be if everything is made only to be destroyed? Well my friends… there is NO meaning to life. Life is a cruel vicious cycle of destruction…NOT creation.
Then how lydat?? Well.. its so damn cliché to say this but its true. For those out there who have followed me thru my darker period in life not too long ago, I’m sure you’re glad to hear me say this.. Since we’re all doomed anyway, we might as well make the most of what we have. Love your parents, be nice to friends. Above all, be nice to everyone and anyone that comes into your life. No matter how much they’ve tortured u or dragged you through hell. They might not stay long, but I think we all have a responsibility to help one another to live life to the fullest. Don’t just think about your happiness.. think about others and how u can make them happier… and maybe.. you just might find happiness in that.
Life is a destructive process. Everything that lives is destroyed. All things created are meant to be destroyed. Morbid huh? But its kinda true if you think about it. How many times in our lives have we created or made something or found something only for it to be robbed from us, taken away? A flower grows only for it to wilt. Fruit grows for it to be eaten. Igneous rocks cool from magma only for it to be weathered and eroded. Happiness grows only for it to turn to sorrow. Even as we speak, even as you read this… YOU are DECOMPOSING. So why am I saying all this? What then can the meaning of life be if everything is made only to be destroyed? Well my friends… there is NO meaning to life. Life is a cruel vicious cycle of destruction…NOT creation.
Then how lydat?? Well.. its so damn cliché to say this but its true. For those out there who have followed me thru my darker period in life not too long ago, I’m sure you’re glad to hear me say this.. Since we’re all doomed anyway, we might as well make the most of what we have. Love your parents, be nice to friends. Above all, be nice to everyone and anyone that comes into your life. No matter how much they’ve tortured u or dragged you through hell. They might not stay long, but I think we all have a responsibility to help one another to live life to the fullest. Don’t just think about your happiness.. think about others and how u can make them happier… and maybe.. you just might find happiness in that.
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5 leaping turtles:
To chelsea's fren who wrote this:
Yea, true... everything will pass away. But we are made to be eternal beings! our bodies will pass away, but our spirits will live on. Think viewing life with a material perspective becomes very tiring, and in the end it's negative cos it's true that everything will be robbed from u, taken from u. But finding meaning in the eternal will give u a purpose and a goal. Will cause u to see things in a different light.
i agree with u, when u say "we might as well make the most of what we have"... but not becos we're doomed anyway. just my thoughts lah... it's like saying, since i'm going to die, i might as well die happier. Yea, we're all going to die... but why not think... cos we're here for a greater purpose den to just look to death?
"I think we all have a responsibility to help one another to live life to the fullest." YES! i agreee! Lets all maximise each others' potential... lets keep giving, even tho it's tough, even tho smtimes it hurts... It's a great thing to constantly remember, n yes... u'll find happiness in making other's happy!
Chel's friend to mishi:
i'm not saying that everybody should adopt my hypothesis but its kinda for those who feel they have no hope....
cools... cheers!
why don't you just live life as you like then. why care about the people around you, since u are gonna die and be destroyed, then why u care so much about other people? dun need to let urself be dragged or tortured, make life sound so bad, just do wat u want, make urself happy, you dun know how long u urself have got to live.
only if a person thinks that there is something better in life, is it worth being nice to others, if u think that the world is all bad then screw the world, maybe u think that there is something good about the world and therefore its worth being nice to the people that matter to you.
its a contridiction to say that the world is destructive and yet u ask people to create happiness... what is ur purpose in life then? just to be nice and die and hope along the way people are nice to you to?
but thats just my hypothesis
See.. what you just wrote was how i felt before. And obviously that doesn't work for me. The thing is, you can't just sit on your bum waiting for a reason to fall on your lap, neither can you go out chasing that reason cause you'll probably never find it. Some people find that reason to spread happiness in life, some will never. If the latter is the case, why should we give people a reason to smile then? I can understand where you're coming cause its a basic human response that we all exhibited from young, "since i can't have it, why should anybody else?" but i think thats where society starts to crumble. Yeah.. its idealistic for me to "spread" happiness.. but what else have you got left when everyone turns their back on you? maybe somehow... while making others happy, we'll find that happiness ourselves
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