Deteoration
No matter how I try to look at it, my physical and mental condition seems to have been on the downhill lately. I'm experiencing insomnia like I've never before. It's 3:46a.m. now and I'm tired as crap. Yet, my eyes refuse to close. Not only that, I've been having vivid dreams lately that I can only guratee would lead me to more day time Deja Vu experiences to mess with my already damaged mind. Before I continue, there's this quote I found from an unknown author which I found quite funny. Yet at the same time meanigful. A little something to chew on.
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anyone could have. ~Author Unknown
Physically I'm getter weaker and I find myself stumbling left and right and unable to balance at certain moments in time. Not to mention my body has been slow in responding. I barely made it through sword class last Saturday. No focus, nuts. Got hit so many times I've lost count and it took alot out of me to actually concentrate during the only sparring match I won. I still can't properly place a finger on what's happening but I hope it's just a passing fits. There's still so much I want to do and if something terrible were to befall me before I could acomplish them, I'd be quite devastated.
When people say to me: "How do you do so many things?" I often answer them, without meaning to be cruel: "How do you do so little?" It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. ~Philip Adams
Aside from my failing health, it has also come to my attention that the human race has also been deteorating at a rate far more alarming than I initially have thought. A friend of mine introduced me to some weight loss program shit which I promptly refused, saying that I'd rather do it the 'old fashion way'. Her reply shocked me when she asked what the old fashion way was. I thought it was quite obvious. Excercise people! How many of you Singaporeans out there have forgotten about this? Have we humans become so dependent on stupid things like health products, accupuncture and therepy that we forgot how to walk with out own two legs? When she replied "That will take so long isn't?", I nearly cried in shame to call myself a teen of this current age. I find hard work rewarding and if one day I was to lose weight, it would be out of my own will. Not from some pills. The phrase 'Beauty is only skin deep' is already a sinking ship.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~T.S. Eliot
Moving on, later in the conversation, she asked me just how much weight I intend to lose using the 'old fashion way'. I replied, 'Everything I don't want.' Which again came across me as obviously every single ounce of weight I don't want to have on my body. Her last two replies came in a form of the English language which took me a few good seconds to decipher. This prompted me to reread the messages she has sent me thus far. I realized that every messages was written in Singlish. That wasn't so bad. Even I write in Singlish sometimes. But the one thing that really made me sad was that even the Singlish words were mispelled. Reading though the past 50 of my messages, the ones written in Singlish were equally demorallizing. Our command of the language (any language) has truly fallen and become a complete mish-mash of internet jargon and modern day slangs.
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top. ~Arnold Bennett
I'm not asking for perfection. But at least putting some heart into the things we do can't be that bad right? Like maybe checking once through your messages to make sure they aren't crap or actually working for the things you want isn't so hard issit? Not all, but many of us have forgotten the satisfaction of hard work. The happiness that comes with the happiness of other. All these traits can be seen in every little action one makes and truthfully, I've been seeing very little of them lately. Lessons that our forefathers have thaught us since ages past so we not make the same mistakes are being forgotten. After all, those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it; those who fail to learn history correctly; why, they are simply doomed.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~Les Brown
There's one more quote I found. Meaningul to the core it is. I may forget the phrase and the words and maybe even the person who said it. But the thing it's trying to convey would forever be part of me.
When I was a Boy Scout, we played a game when new Scouts joined the troop. We lined up chairs in a pattern, creating an obstacle course through which the new Scouts, blindfolded, were supposed to maneuver. The Scoutmaster gave them a few moments to study the pattern before our adventure began. But as soon as the victims were blindfolded, the rest of us quietly removed the chairs. I think life is like this game. Perhaps we spend our lives avoiding obstacles we have created for ourselves and in reality exist only in our minds. We're afraid to apply for that job, take violin lessons, learn a foreign language, call an old friend, write our Congressman - whatever it is that we would really like to do but don't because of personal obstacles. Don't avoid any chairs until you run smack into one. And if you do, at least you'll have a place to sit down. ~Pierce Vincent Eckhart
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anyone could have. ~Author Unknown
Physically I'm getter weaker and I find myself stumbling left and right and unable to balance at certain moments in time. Not to mention my body has been slow in responding. I barely made it through sword class last Saturday. No focus, nuts. Got hit so many times I've lost count and it took alot out of me to actually concentrate during the only sparring match I won. I still can't properly place a finger on what's happening but I hope it's just a passing fits. There's still so much I want to do and if something terrible were to befall me before I could acomplish them, I'd be quite devastated.
When people say to me: "How do you do so many things?" I often answer them, without meaning to be cruel: "How do you do so little?" It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. ~Philip Adams
Aside from my failing health, it has also come to my attention that the human race has also been deteorating at a rate far more alarming than I initially have thought. A friend of mine introduced me to some weight loss program shit which I promptly refused, saying that I'd rather do it the 'old fashion way'. Her reply shocked me when she asked what the old fashion way was. I thought it was quite obvious. Excercise people! How many of you Singaporeans out there have forgotten about this? Have we humans become so dependent on stupid things like health products, accupuncture and therepy that we forgot how to walk with out own two legs? When she replied "That will take so long isn't?", I nearly cried in shame to call myself a teen of this current age. I find hard work rewarding and if one day I was to lose weight, it would be out of my own will. Not from some pills. The phrase 'Beauty is only skin deep' is already a sinking ship.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~T.S. Eliot
Moving on, later in the conversation, she asked me just how much weight I intend to lose using the 'old fashion way'. I replied, 'Everything I don't want.' Which again came across me as obviously every single ounce of weight I don't want to have on my body. Her last two replies came in a form of the English language which took me a few good seconds to decipher. This prompted me to reread the messages she has sent me thus far. I realized that every messages was written in Singlish. That wasn't so bad. Even I write in Singlish sometimes. But the one thing that really made me sad was that even the Singlish words were mispelled. Reading though the past 50 of my messages, the ones written in Singlish were equally demorallizing. Our command of the language (any language) has truly fallen and become a complete mish-mash of internet jargon and modern day slangs.
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top. ~Arnold Bennett
I'm not asking for perfection. But at least putting some heart into the things we do can't be that bad right? Like maybe checking once through your messages to make sure they aren't crap or actually working for the things you want isn't so hard issit? Not all, but many of us have forgotten the satisfaction of hard work. The happiness that comes with the happiness of other. All these traits can be seen in every little action one makes and truthfully, I've been seeing very little of them lately. Lessons that our forefathers have thaught us since ages past so we not make the same mistakes are being forgotten. After all, those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it; those who fail to learn history correctly; why, they are simply doomed.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~Les Brown
There's one more quote I found. Meaningul to the core it is. I may forget the phrase and the words and maybe even the person who said it. But the thing it's trying to convey would forever be part of me.
When I was a Boy Scout, we played a game when new Scouts joined the troop. We lined up chairs in a pattern, creating an obstacle course through which the new Scouts, blindfolded, were supposed to maneuver. The Scoutmaster gave them a few moments to study the pattern before our adventure began. But as soon as the victims were blindfolded, the rest of us quietly removed the chairs. I think life is like this game. Perhaps we spend our lives avoiding obstacles we have created for ourselves and in reality exist only in our minds. We're afraid to apply for that job, take violin lessons, learn a foreign language, call an old friend, write our Congressman - whatever it is that we would really like to do but don't because of personal obstacles. Don't avoid any chairs until you run smack into one. And if you do, at least you'll have a place to sit down. ~Pierce Vincent Eckhart
Aden saw the light at 3:47 AM
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