To SHUMING:
Please don't be surprised, don't be alarmed, but yes, I changed song, AGAIN.
To the rest who just came here after such a LONG time:
I've changed song, just in case you don't even realize. Tsk, how dare you not visit my enchanted forest for so long! Shame on you. Better tagg me to compensate, HAH.
Something my auntie mumble today which struck me particularly deep:
"
Life is a long stretch of searching for things."
Of course, when she said that, she was referring to her frequent short term memory loss that resulted in her absent-mindedness. She needed to read something and apparently she could not locate her glasses, which later I found sitting pretty comfortable beside her bed. That means, she took it off before taking a nap and after that, she forgot completely about her glasses, way til she needed them again.
Searching, and searching. Life is a long stretch of searching.
Who would just beg to differ? If you do, think again.
Since young we were conditioned to look into our future, envision an ideal one for ourselves, and then spend our whole life projecting into the future. We are in constant search for the better - better education, better pay, better life. We seek more business opportunity which yields greater profits and with that, greater wealth. We have all seen and experienced for ourselves what money can do, and how modern living is a game for the rich. And then we want a bigger, better house, and then... and then...
Since young we've been told of fairytales that ends with '
... and they lived happily, ever after', so unknowingly, we want one for ourselves too. Remember the time when you were little, and silently wished upon a falling star, for a 'happy ever after' just like the one in fairytales? I do. Then the media have bombarded us with enough dramas and movies that tell of romantic love stories of various forms and languages. The quest in search of 'THE ONE' and happy ever after in reality has since begun. So we meet different people, tried different things, get into different relationships, all for the sake of searching for
the happy ending we have long envisioned when we were little. However more you may deny, but deep down inside you do know, and you do believe, that there might be a fairytale somewhere hidden for you, thus, you search again.
In the process of searching, however, we could have just missed out little blessings along the way. Sometimes, because we are a little too hard-headed, or because we grip on too tightly, that we missed out delicate things that could change our lives. And when you realize these little blessings are gone, you'll sigh, 'It was SO CLOSE'.
Yes, we could be just SO CLOSE to anything, and everything. At times we just take things for granted because they are always there. Experiences tell us that we don't realize the importance until it's lost. We could be SO CLOSE to a multi-million business, but because we looked too hard, looked too far, we overlooked it, for it's concealed near us.
Or, we could be on the quest for THE ONE, but missing out on people who actually mean the world to us, just because they've been around, and we just looked too far.
Perhaps, we should all put on corrective glasses for our inherent hyperopia, and see clearly what - and who - is around, and start to see their importance.
Life is a long stretch of searching, because we are all born hyperopic.
