Tuesday, October 25, 2011

:D

I love writing! I guess I just forgot how cathartic it can be.

Grinning Goat at 10/25/2011 03:44:00 PM pontificated

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{buzzz out}

Fascinating

I remember back in secondary school right after the morning assembly, the vice principal (she is a lot more vocal and long winded than the principal) talked about how we should see things in life, both good and bad but especially the bad as something 'fascinating'.

And we all had sniggered at that. Not so much because we were in that rebellious phase of youth but more like everyone was sleepy and it was early in the morning and it's hot and we were not in the mood to listen to someone pondering about her life philosophy. The odd thing is I'm right here right now writing exactly about that.

I guess we may refuse to listen but the words all made their way into our heads, in the end. It is a matter of timing, much in the same manner you can't expect the protein to get digested in your mouth and that you simply have to wait until it made its way into your stomach where the appropriate enzymes are available (too geeky an example for you? haha).

She is right, I suppose. My former vice principal. More right than I am willing to admit hahaha. 'Fascinating'. That's just such an optimistic word and perhaps the pessimist in me was rather unfairly penalizing it for its very nature.

I was just thinking, how funny it is that the concept of 'now' is so blinding. And how you almost always do much better on hindsight. But we will never have that hindsight until the event is over, but by that time you would've done whatever it was you do at 'now', right when you were still blind.

It is ironic. And sad in a way. Fascinating? maybe it is.

If you were asked to contemplate about fate. Whether it exists. You will never really know, will you? How would you know if anything is pre-destined unless you have seen how events unfold? You won't know how the movie is going to end until the credit is about to roll (well let's not talk about poorly made movies...) and by the time you know how the movie ends and you can see everything from beginning to end, from A to Z in perfect clarity, the movie has ended.

That's why some people watch a movie twice. So they get to enjoy the process in the middle but with the benefit of that hindsight. And you really do see a lot more things the second time around.

But there is no rewind button in life, is there? You can't fast-forward (you can only take out the tape, but that's another matter altogether) but you can't rewind either.

Grinning Goat at 10/25/2011 03:11:00 PM pontificated

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{buzzz out}