Greetings,
How long has it been since I last felt inspired to write? How long has it been since I last decided to record my thoughts in this form? Well once again here I am, in this place now so unfamiliar.
Some days ago a friend of mine gave me an interesting thought through our conversation. We were talking about the upcoming FOC and she was saying that I might meet some girls of fancy there if I patronize. And she said:
“...at least it is something special that can happen in your uni life…” -Laurie
For a moment I was dumbstruck. For it was a sentiment that had never occurred to me before. To have something special in any part of my life. Suddenly, so simply, yet subtlety I realized that throughout the many phases of my life that I had lived, I had never once thought about how I might be able to define it as to have “something special” about it. Needless to say, to have something special in my university life.
It is not just about something special as in a relationship or anything of that sort. It is about whether I had anything special that I could use to define my life. Or any part of it for that matter. Something I can so confide in, that I can so honestly call it truly special to me, in my life.
By her few simple words, she made me realize that, I have never thought, never tried to make any part of my life special before. That I have resigned to the fact that I will live an ordinary life. How shameful. Have you thought about how you can make your life special? I know now I have not.
Let us change that shall we?
Fortuitously, just moments before, another friend of mine gave me another interesting thought through our conversation. We were talking about how our lives have been after the tumultuous exams and how we each have some misgivings about how we ought to be spending our time. And she said:
“…nvm lahx. juz focus on wad u wan nw. enjoy ur moment of life…” -Doreen
It was apt for us since we had practically no life prior to our exams. But after I gave it some thought, I realize that this was not just an apt phrase. It is particularly defining phrase and reminder.
A reminder that our life is afterall, just a brief moment in time. That we only have by standard of history, a brief moment to live. And that we only have this so very short time, blink of eye, bright flashing fragile spark of life that we can make our lives worth living.
If you have read Stephan Hawkins’ book, “A Brief History of Time”, you’ll concur how our history is indeed very brief, amidst the great depths of discovery that awaits us, in the vast void of oblivion that is the reality we exist in.
Shall we make the most of this “moment”?
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