THE POWERFUL INSTINCT FOR SURVIVAL
Bomb blast yesterday morning. I was no where near the location for it (the Delhi High Court) nor were any of my friends. Though about a dozen people died, and scores were injured.
Earthquake last night. It was low in intensity, so no one got hurt, though it was quite scary.
So nothing really happened, but it set me thinking, once again, of the human ability to recover from tragedy, and to get on with life. This ability is, of course, totally laudable. But - and this is what i was thinking and what I discussed with my friend the other night - it is also not really laudable in the sense that it is basic human instincts, isn't it, to move on, if one wants to survive?
My friend pointed out that mabe, some people don't really move on. This reminds me of the entry in Gacktionary where G says -
Different from external injuries, psychological wounds are like lines drawn on a whiteboard. You're simply looking at the lines drawn on the board and recognizing them as wounds. But the lines are just drawn on the surface of the board, and if you want to erase them, you can do so by rubbing them off with a little bit of force. If your will is decently strong, erasing them is an easy task...
(Translated by the fabulous excused_earlyhere)
I do want to believe this, and agree with it also. It's a fiercely optimistic point of view (coming from a guy who 'dies' on stage, writes about death, and basically calls himself mentally unbalanced, LOL! makes one happy to think of it, ne? (he's SO adorable)) which i want to believe in and to a great extent, i do. But, like i was discussing with a friend, sometimes people lose something in tragedy - and it's not something material, but something inside - and it's very difficult to get it back, even though one's survival instincts struggle to recover it.
I dunno. what do you think?
In other news (news??), i recently discovered another piece of music by GACKT which i hadn't heard before (oh the shamefullness of it! i'm still not up to date! though the embarrassment of knowing that i still haven't managed to discover all his music dispite concerted efforts, is well overwhelmed by the thrill of hearing something Gacktian (especially old-school Gacktian!) for the first time ever, you know what i mean? XD). It's a musical piece which made me realize that the soul is probably made up of music, and what i was hearing here was a tiny, microscopic, 7-minutes long piece of GACKT's soul. And that it is brilliantly beautiful, and pure and every other good thing in the world. :D
Also, i have two Questions, please help me out if you can!
1. Has anyone downloaded from here? I can't seem to download the episodes here! (and i'm dying to!) :(
2. Has anyone used wordpress.com to design their website? I'm trying to work on my dad's website, and i am basically clueless about where to start, so i'd love some handholding, if anyone is willing to help.
Earthquake last night. It was low in intensity, so no one got hurt, though it was quite scary.
So nothing really happened, but it set me thinking, once again, of the human ability to recover from tragedy, and to get on with life. This ability is, of course, totally laudable. But - and this is what i was thinking and what I discussed with my friend the other night - it is also not really laudable in the sense that it is basic human instincts, isn't it, to move on, if one wants to survive?
My friend pointed out that mabe, some people don't really move on. This reminds me of the entry in Gacktionary where G says -
Different from external injuries, psychological wounds are like lines drawn on a whiteboard. You're simply looking at the lines drawn on the board and recognizing them as wounds. But the lines are just drawn on the surface of the board, and if you want to erase them, you can do so by rubbing them off with a little bit of force. If your will is decently strong, erasing them is an easy task...
(Translated by the fabulous excused_earlyhere)
I do want to believe this, and agree with it also. It's a fiercely optimistic point of view (coming from a guy who 'dies' on stage, writes about death, and basically calls himself mentally unbalanced, LOL! makes one happy to think of it, ne? (he's SO adorable)) which i want to believe in and to a great extent, i do. But, like i was discussing with a friend, sometimes people lose something in tragedy - and it's not something material, but something inside - and it's very difficult to get it back, even though one's survival instincts struggle to recover it.
I dunno. what do you think?
In other news (news??), i recently discovered another piece of music by GACKT which i hadn't heard before (oh the shamefullness of it! i'm still not up to date! though the embarrassment of knowing that i still haven't managed to discover all his music dispite concerted efforts, is well overwhelmed by the thrill of hearing something Gacktian (especially old-school Gacktian!) for the first time ever, you know what i mean? XD). It's a musical piece which made me realize that the soul is probably made up of music, and what i was hearing here was a tiny, microscopic, 7-minutes long piece of GACKT's soul. And that it is brilliantly beautiful, and pure and every other good thing in the world. :D
Click to viewAlso, i have two Questions, please help me out if you can!
1. Has anyone downloaded from here? I can't seem to download the episodes here! (and i'm dying to!) :(
2. Has anyone used wordpress.com to design their website? I'm trying to work on my dad's website, and i am basically clueless about where to start, so i'd love some handholding, if anyone is willing to help.