.::Monday, August 16, 2004 Bought a new bk on sunday...read it till the end...and now just reflecting on it...the bk is by Mitch ALbom and the title is' tuesday's with morrie'....its a grt read abt life in another perspective....not sayin its the rite perspective...but it will give you a jolt somehow on how u live in this world...its basically abt morrie, mitch's professor during his university years who faces death any moment...and they both work together to put this last "thesis" abt the story of life...but anyway wanna highlight some key pts within the bk itself which i feel are relevant to my theme this month...in general it does speak abt life bearing more meaning...that everyone unwittingly chases their own life making themselves busy and doing things which to them may seem very impt and that they lose out to wat reli means a lot to them...i believe many of us do go through this phase whereby we move on we leave the ppl who matters most in our lives...the ppl whom you cared, loved and learnt a lot frm...the culture we r in governs how we live life...yet it shdnt be becoz we all are unique and its our choice to create our own culture not sayin that we shd rebel...but tell me whether the culture we live in today makes us feel gd...we are pressed down by this culture that sells us products that lead us mostly to unhappiness and unsatisfaction...a life for the sake of material gains...therefore why buy it...but many are not strong enough to say that this culture is wrong...and most of the time we chose not to resist becoz its the norm, its the rite thing...are u sure?....the bk describes or shd i say morrie describes ppl as "half asleep" daily following routines that in the end really dun matter...becoz in the end it doesnt matter if the busy things we do will make us happy nor would it be the success we get frm working so hard...becoz in the end watever things we hv worked for in life...mean nothing when u face death...and death is wat makes all humans equal in status...becoz no matter who you r wat status you hv...death yes its not a joke...death is wat reli makes ppl stop at their so busy lives and realise that wat they hv been labouring on for ages...wat they hv sweated out, mugged all night and day for that test...reli means nothin when death stares at them every now and then...all our lives lead to death...dont you see how volatile life is...that in a snap...you can just disappear and all that work dat u hv...is meaningless...becoz u can never take it with you...well the main pt is that when u realise u can die...wat are the impt things that runs through your mind...another thing the morrie mentions is dat "once you learn how to die, you learn how to live." its such a simple truth to discovering meaning in your life...becoz if u were given just one day to live(i noe this is so cliche and you would be gracious enough that u hv one day becoz some dun even hv tat time)...wat would u do...gracious enough for morrie he was given abt a yr or less to live and realise life as it is...and through tat period he realised the most impt thing abt life was giving...giving your time for a cause, a purpose...life if u just follow the way the world is...is very shallow...if ur life revolves ard work whereby u always noe the outcome and not ard the ppl whom you noe are the one's u can touch and make a difference yet not know the outcome and find true meanin in....then i guess life is really meaningless...not sayin taht i hv found it yet...but slowly i m discovering meanin...esp in my sch life...but in my other aspects of life...the meaning is there...i noe my life can be taken away in a snap...i noe that this pain in my head might turn out as something worse than just a simple headache(not sayin it is but who noes)....but i m assured my life has a meaning...even as i slowly discover and accept it now...but in my lifetime i will never ever for the sake of my selfishness or wat not compromise my believes, my values and this meaning...unless someone comes up to me and says i m wrong...and i guess i hv to admit that sometimes i do not live up to my own believes and values...but dat does not mean i dun hv one...living is always a struggle...a struggle to be perfect...perfect not in the flesh and blood we r made of...but perfect according to the meaning i hv found....
anyway...if u feel u want a gd read...and hv finally realised u hv time...take up this bk and read it...maybe u may discover somethin i hv not mentioned...becoz everyone has diff opinions...not sayin mine are always rite...or even the bks...thats the beauty of human beings...the choice to decipher wats rite and wrong...to analyse everythin...to feel emotions...(i noe i hv many more emotions to feel....hahaha)...and most of all i guess its to give...the act of giving...dats why i do wonder why i take a long time to type things like this out...and i guess its becoz i feel like sharing my mind to the world out there....not for my own sake...but to tell em something so remarkable i hv discovered...and i guess the choice is yours to believe watever i say...and i guess this is the purpose of my blog...not only to share my daily struggles and feelins...but to share some things so impt in my life...and dats why i say...in this journey of life...it all depends on where your heart is...(kl...i think i shdnt hv written this...head is achin very bad...)
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