Friday, March 25, 2005
Life is...
Life isn't about keeping score.
It's not about how many friends you have
Or how accepted you are.
Not about if you have plans for this weekend or if you're alone.
It isn't about who you're dating, who you used to date,
how many people you've dated,
or if you haven't been with anyone at all.
It isn't about who your family is or how much money they have
Or what kind of car you drive.
Or where you are sent to school.
It's not about how beautiful or ugly you are.
Or what clothes you wear, what shoes you have on,
or what kind of music you listen to.
It's not about if you hair is blonde, red, black, or brown.
Or if your skin is too light or too dark.
Not about what grades you get, how smart you are,
how smart everybody else thinks you are.
It's not about what clubs you're in
or how good you are at "your" sport.
It's not about representing your whole being on a piece of paper
and seeing who will "accept the written you"
LIFE JUST ISN'T.
But, life is about who you love and who you hurt.
It's about who you make happy or unhappy purposefully.
It's about keeping or betraying trust of your friends.
It's about friendship, used as a sanctity or a weapon.
It's about what you say and mean, maybe hurtful, maybe heartening.
About starting rumours and contributing to petty gossip.
It's about what judgments you pass and why,
and who your judgements are spread to.
It's about how rumours and judgements intentionally or
unintentionally been spread to hurt others
It's about who you've ignored with full control and intention.
It's about jealousy, fear, ignorance, and revenge,
It's about carrying inner hate and love, letting it grow
and spreading it.
But most of all, it's about using your life to touch or poison other
people's hearts & minds in such a way that could have never occurred alone.
Only you choose the way those hearts are affected,
and those choices are what life's all about.
P/S: Extracted this from a mail from a long time friend who is now having difficulties with his studies, or basically, his life. He is currently very depressed and frightened of socialising with people, afraid that they are sticking to these "rules of engagement". But how many of us actually did one or more of such anti-life things mentioned above? I can't blame him for being depressed because i cannot cover his eyes from seeing the truth about the kind of life many people are leading today. He is afraid that one day, he would be hurt by them, or worst still, become one of them. In memory of the once cheerful him, i hope i could see the sunshine in him once again soon.
A lot of people have asked me before, why do i have to look at life in such a practical/extreme/depressing/(watever u might call it, you get my point) way? Then let me ask all of you, how can you reject the truth and be oblivious to it? I can see with my eyes and i dun wanna pretend that i'm blind. And seriously, i do get depress sometimes too, but at least i still can control my emotions well enough to survive. And its true that there's no clear definition to what life is, and everyone has the right to live life the way they want it to be. And i can't enforce anything on anyone and i'm not a great philosopher like confucius where each words he says, people would cherish it like gold or diamonds. But at least i make a point to change those who even bother to think about it after reading what i've posted, and to reflect on themselves. Heh heh, i hope this helps! :)
alvinz blogged at 1:55 PM
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