It's been a while :)
[feeling| 
calm]
There is something...oddly romantic and bittersweet about putting your faith, belief and even your time in something that is doomed to end.
I've been watching the short-lived TV series Three Rivers lately. It's a show about organ transplants and how a team of doctor-surgeons manage to "procure" a piece of viable organ from a dying--if not already dead, brain dead, that is--person to give it to someone else who needs it. I just finished the ninth episode and with only have four episodes left, I kinda wish there were more. See, the show was canceled and only 13 episodes were aired by CBS.
But the thing there is, I knew from the start that it was canceled, that there would be no new episodes, and yet... I chose to go ahead and give it a try.
And as I've realized, there's something magical about choosing something that's already "doomed". Sound so macabre but well, it simply means that most people choose the things that are working; things that can still go on. No one really chooses the thing that has only a few days to live or even a few hours. It's logical, practical even, to buy a new watch instead of relying on the one that's almost already broken. It makes sense to watch that TV show that's still running than one that's already canceled, lest you be disappointed and left wanting more. It's automatic for people to concentrate on what they can have longer than something, which they can only have for an instance.
No one chooses what might be only temporary and fleeting. Instead, everyone tries to contain, hold and possess what might last forever. I guess it's our mark as human beings for we only get to live one life and we would want those that would last a lifetime, things of a more permanent nature. Why waste time with the temporary if you'll only lose them eventually?
The thing is, people oftentimes choose the long, boring and dreary. They choose what's already fixed, what's guaranteed to last long because it's a consistency, a promise, they can depend on. But then, we all know nothing last's forever so even those things of permanency have an end. I'm not saying to never choose the lasting things. I guess, after all, we need some kind of stability in a world that changes so quickly.
It's just that... Sometimes, try choosing the temporary things. When you choose something that's already "doomed", something that's bound to end sooner than later, you get only a passing experience and it will always never be enough. It's sort of an adventure, except you already know the destination. It's the journey that's worth taking. It's a chance for you to close your eyes and relish the moment. Then just before that thing ends, just before you open yours eyes, you begin to wish that it could have gone longer; that it wasn't doomed as you already knew from the start...
And that's when magic happens.
calm]
There is something...oddly romantic and bittersweet about putting your faith, belief and even your time in something that is doomed to end.
I've been watching the short-lived TV series Three Rivers lately. It's a show about organ transplants and how a team of doctor-surgeons manage to "procure" a piece of viable organ from a dying--if not already dead, brain dead, that is--person to give it to someone else who needs it. I just finished the ninth episode and with only have four episodes left, I kinda wish there were more. See, the show was canceled and only 13 episodes were aired by CBS.
But the thing there is, I knew from the start that it was canceled, that there would be no new episodes, and yet... I chose to go ahead and give it a try.
And as I've realized, there's something magical about choosing something that's already "doomed". Sound so macabre but well, it simply means that most people choose the things that are working; things that can still go on. No one really chooses the thing that has only a few days to live or even a few hours. It's logical, practical even, to buy a new watch instead of relying on the one that's almost already broken. It makes sense to watch that TV show that's still running than one that's already canceled, lest you be disappointed and left wanting more. It's automatic for people to concentrate on what they can have longer than something, which they can only have for an instance.
No one chooses what might be only temporary and fleeting. Instead, everyone tries to contain, hold and possess what might last forever. I guess it's our mark as human beings for we only get to live one life and we would want those that would last a lifetime, things of a more permanent nature. Why waste time with the temporary if you'll only lose them eventually?
The thing is, people oftentimes choose the long, boring and dreary. They choose what's already fixed, what's guaranteed to last long because it's a consistency, a promise, they can depend on. But then, we all know nothing last's forever so even those things of permanency have an end. I'm not saying to never choose the lasting things. I guess, after all, we need some kind of stability in a world that changes so quickly.
It's just that... Sometimes, try choosing the temporary things. When you choose something that's already "doomed", something that's bound to end sooner than later, you get only a passing experience and it will always never be enough. It's sort of an adventure, except you already know the destination. It's the journey that's worth taking. It's a chance for you to close your eyes and relish the moment. Then just before that thing ends, just before you open yours eyes, you begin to wish that it could have gone longer; that it wasn't doomed as you already knew from the start...
And that's when magic happens.