Putting on your buttons backwords....
Yesterday evening I went to watch "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" with Audrey, and I must say that the story spoke deeply to me in many levels. The facets of life, mortality, the transience of people, places, and memories came out as central issues in my own personal dialog with myself.
To quote George Costanza’s (from Sienfeld) words of wisdom:
“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death. What’s that, a bonus?!?! I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you go live in an old age home. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, then, when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You drink alcohol, you party, and you get ready for high school. You go to primary school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities. You become a little baby, you go back, spend your last 9 months floating with luxuries like central heating, spa, room service on tap, then you finish off as an orgasm! Amen.”
In retrospect, I think that the issue here is not of sequences, but of maximising the moments in life. All of us have been given the span of time that we have, and despite the sequences or series of events, it is going to be up to us to make meaning and purpose in our lives. More often than not, I ask myself if I had done good in my life, and whether I everything that I do is in accordance to my conscious and purpose in life. What path have I choosen for myself? I do know that when I am gone, I want the people closest to me to celebrate that I have come to the end of my journey and fulfilling my life's purpose. Mourn me not for I am gone, but rejoice in the fact that my journey is at it's end, my work is done, and I can finally rest.
To quote George Costanza’s (from Sienfeld) words of wisdom:
“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death. What’s that, a bonus?!?! I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you go live in an old age home. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, then, when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You drink alcohol, you party, and you get ready for high school. You go to primary school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities. You become a little baby, you go back, spend your last 9 months floating with luxuries like central heating, spa, room service on tap, then you finish off as an orgasm! Amen.”
In retrospect, I think that the issue here is not of sequences, but of maximising the moments in life. All of us have been given the span of time that we have, and despite the sequences or series of events, it is going to be up to us to make meaning and purpose in our lives. More often than not, I ask myself if I had done good in my life, and whether I everything that I do is in accordance to my conscious and purpose in life. What path have I choosen for myself? I do know that when I am gone, I want the people closest to me to celebrate that I have come to the end of my journey and fulfilling my life's purpose. Mourn me not for I am gone, but rejoice in the fact that my journey is at it's end, my work is done, and I can finally rest.