one of those
it's one of those days when you feel like the weather compliments your mood. it's bleak. 8 million people in Iraq is suffering. they need basic stuff to survive like food, water, shelter and here i am feeling bad cuz i don't have internet in my room.
anyways, i feel blue cuz i realised there's so many things i don't know! it feels dumb to know that. jun said that the only way to improve is to feel dumb all the time. but she noted too that as a result, one will never feel smart.
what's cool about the news today is that it made me realise that people usually unite when they realise that all of them have a common ground. the iraqis all celebrated together regardless of their differences (be it political, religious, etc) when they won the Asian Cup. The next minute, they are enemies again when they are reminded of their differences. it's comforting to think that the moments they spent dancing together (no matter how relatively short a span it was) was a sign that they can be happy with each other; as long as they choose too.
sometimes people make choices they aren't really aware of. they choose to be enemies without consciously choosing to. it saddens me that life's like that. i may not understand the reality in iraq but i want to believe that there is hope for peace. there is hope for sustenance for everyone.
but i am not one to judge the choices that the iraqis make. i am not the one in that situation so i wouldn't understand. mornings are spent worrying on my incomplete answers to my tutorial homeworks. evenings are spent chasing away the birds on the balcony. nights are spent deliberating on whether to watch a DVD or continue reading something intellectual...
it must be hard living others' lives but yet i sometimes hate this mundane life of mine. it's one of those days when the heavy clouds seem to scream to you "i feel you, i feel you".
anyways, i feel blue cuz i realised there's so many things i don't know! it feels dumb to know that. jun said that the only way to improve is to feel dumb all the time. but she noted too that as a result, one will never feel smart.
what's cool about the news today is that it made me realise that people usually unite when they realise that all of them have a common ground. the iraqis all celebrated together regardless of their differences (be it political, religious, etc) when they won the Asian Cup. The next minute, they are enemies again when they are reminded of their differences. it's comforting to think that the moments they spent dancing together (no matter how relatively short a span it was) was a sign that they can be happy with each other; as long as they choose too.
sometimes people make choices they aren't really aware of. they choose to be enemies without consciously choosing to. it saddens me that life's like that. i may not understand the reality in iraq but i want to believe that there is hope for peace. there is hope for sustenance for everyone.
but i am not one to judge the choices that the iraqis make. i am not the one in that situation so i wouldn't understand. mornings are spent worrying on my incomplete answers to my tutorial homeworks. evenings are spent chasing away the birds on the balcony. nights are spent deliberating on whether to watch a DVD or continue reading something intellectual...
it must be hard living others' lives but yet i sometimes hate this mundane life of mine. it's one of those days when the heavy clouds seem to scream to you "i feel you, i feel you".