social responsibility
Ignorance is caused by convenience
convenience causes disappointment
disappointment cultivates distrust.
So if there were to be so much distrust, it must have stemmed from a selfish convenience.
So if there were to be little trust, from a lot of trust, that ignorance must have stemmed from a blind, irresponsible, or shockingly inknowledgable person.
unopen doors
A walk down the tunnel of esplanade is enough to awaken me to realize this: that we have been missing out millions of opportunities, events, meetings, encounters as we pass our daily lives. So many a time we never get to experience something new, learn something out of the ordinary, because we do things the very ordinary, very normal way.
year four
It was in 2005 when I posted in this blog about a visitation to an old lady's house. She was then eighty something, husband wheelchair-bound, living only with him. That was a terrace house, a little bit dilapidated on the outside, but turns out to be ok on the inside. She was collecting cans, masses of them, for a living. Each trash bag of empty cans sells for $10, and that's all she did to pay for her husband's medical bills.
Fours years later I passed by the same house, realizing that I visited that place before, I took steps back to take a look. I saw that same old lady's silhouette, as she was crossing the road, background are car lights. "Hey ma'am, ma'am -runs to her-" she is now at her gate "I visited you 4 years ago, do you remember me?" Of course I don't think she did.
Anyway, after that visitation, I continue walking the private estate, and this house stopped me in its tracks. It was of modern design, beautiful, not the most expensive, but still, potent. They are semi-Ds. One has an E-class, another is a Lexus. Ambient lights, fountains, incandescent lights, aircon, stone walls, marble floors.
So it occured to me: In life we may happen to run too fast to forget and not catch many things happening around us. We are too engrossed with our dreams, targets, aims and goals that we don't stop to look at people in need of a helping hand. It could have been our greatest aims to earn our first million, but there are people dropping by along the way whose babies can't make their first year, people who never know if they can see the sun rise again.
So slow down, slow down down down.
Labels: charity
a silent period
It may be normal and predictable that during NS, one writes less, becomes less vocal, and thinks less. True it may be, but the activities of one's mind is completely up to the will of one to activate. External influence give the avenues and opportunities for thought, but it's up to the individual to find things to debate, to learn, to reflect, and to be curious about.
Hence the fact that only about 3 posts came out the past one year, to me, is something worth investigating. One of my instructors told me this: If you were to take back one thing you could learn after every event, it may not be a lot per event, but if you do this for 5 years, 10 years, you would have learnt a lot.
So, I will for every day, record something in my notes that I had learnt from daily observation, or from an event, incident, or accident. Very good.
So let's start with the very first that I could think of:
1. Drinking Nescafe original coffee to start a day after adequate sleep puts me on crack. It should be the same for other forms of caffeine. Although it's wide knowledge that caffeine activates the nervous system, and hence, puts you on crack, why is it that I feel the effects so greatly in this morning? Maybe: 1. This morning, unlike the entire week's I feel the most awake. Other mornings are draggy and slow, hence I felt the difference. 2. Got enough sleep 3. The day started off interesting anyway.
Maybe now I have something to say :)
Labels: breakthrough
The new year
And you ask me what I want this year
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cause I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
So take these words
And sing out loud
Cause everyone is forgiven now
Cause tonight's the night the world begins again
And it's someplace simple where we could live
And something only you can give
And thats faith and trust and peace while we're alive
And the one poor child that saved this world
And there's 10 million more who probably could
If we all just stopped and said a prayer for them
So take these words
And sing out loud
Cause everyone is forgiven now
Cause tonight's the night the world begins again
I wish everyone was loved tonight
And somehow stop this endless fight
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
So take these words
And sing out loud
Cuz everyone is forgiven now
Cuz tonight's the night the world begins again
Cuz tonight's the night the world begins again
Better Days
Goo Goo Dolls
Let love in
Labels: heart
