Monday, September 18, 2006
Yea. People are entitled to their comments - it's Singapore we live in anyway - freedom of speech. No problems with that.
I have my fair share of comments too but well, some are best left unsaid. 18 years and you've seen the most absurd of relationships but not experienced most of them. Yea. 18 mere years and we're still unsure and immature. Childish.
Our school days pass but as a figment of imagination. Friendships forged and torn apart? Yea... been through that. You see things and gain insights. They're amusing at times. Student and technician for example, engulfed in their "own little world of man" if I may quote Shakespeare. But we'll not go there.
I've made my fair share of right and wrong decesions but who is anyone to pass judgement? I know my faults and I'd admit to them. It's a real pity that people are unable to "condemn the fault but not the actor of it." Now, that's a depiction of shallowness. But well, we're all 17 or 18 years of age - inexperienced and longing to stick our heads in everything. What can I say? This is life.
Indeed, we pity and we sympathise with some. I do my fair share of that too. Yet, why the need for open expression of these feelings? It's personal isn't it. And more often than not, we're only offered a single (myopic) view of things. I guess pity is just a sign of weakness. What is there to pity in life? Live by regrets? Nah. Things happen and they happen. Sometimes, even the individuals don't realise the rationale, let alone onlookers. Holmes theory that we should not theorize before gathering substantial facts is relavent here. A failure to do so just depicts oneself as a fool him or herself. Measure for Measure eh? Ye who judged will cast judgement upon himself. And man ain't perfect. So yea... we never understand anything so why be such a shrewed judge of others and pity?
Hmmm... Life goes on. Emotional scars will stay but let's try to be mature about it. We'll die one day anyway so why make life such a miserable thing by drowning ourselves in pity? Yes, we'll be affected by those around but that attempt to fully understand is always lacking. For all you know, knowledge may bring light to self?
Make the best of what we have. Treasure and love.
The above is not an attempt to complicate things instead, it is to line them all out in the simple way it's supposed to be. Move on.
The stage is set and the curtains are up - let's play this play to the end. Actors and co-actors make mistakes I do admit but still, the show must go on.
Are you perfect? If not, who are you to bring judgement upon your fellow actors. We know our flaws - we're not stupid - but the accentuation of these characteristics only evoke more inclination to falter. Stage fright overdose deconstructs.
And if that's what we're trying to do, won't we be dragging ourselves down too? This life is one big act. What comes around goes around - theory of the wheel of fortune. I'm well aware myself and yes, I'd take what comes.
We live to die and die to live - why complicate it so much with all the pitying? I'm sorry but it's just this way.
Mankind has to move on.
