Monday, February 08, 2010
I just did my spring cleaning today. (much more i'd like to do but that's for another day... haha) Yet, finally I got my lazy ass down to doing it.
As usual, I dug up some memories. All the hong kong memories, the orientation mementos, strawberry earrings, and mjc econs "workbook". Made me think. See, life is not all about being in the present. The past makes up so much of the present, there is no way of pointing out where the past stopped and where the present began, much less where the future might be.
You know, I can't begin to imagine what is it like to lose my memory or have a memory so short it is only a fraction of a minute. I also can't imagine what kind of pain one might have to suffer to leave behind everything and attempt to move on, living the life of another person altogether. Along the same lines, I see Alzheimer's disease as horrible and equivalent to that of a terminal disease.
The new year might be coming, it might be a whole new year for us chinese, but lets not rush headfirst into embracing the new beginning without a silent backward look at our past. Feel that regret for all the things that you could have made right, feel the sorrow at all the loss... Only then could we look forward to the promise of the future, with wide open wise(r) eyes.
Happy Lunar New Year!
As usual, I dug up some memories. All the hong kong memories, the orientation mementos, strawberry earrings, and mjc econs "workbook". Made me think. See, life is not all about being in the present. The past makes up so much of the present, there is no way of pointing out where the past stopped and where the present began, much less where the future might be.
You know, I can't begin to imagine what is it like to lose my memory or have a memory so short it is only a fraction of a minute. I also can't imagine what kind of pain one might have to suffer to leave behind everything and attempt to move on, living the life of another person altogether. Along the same lines, I see Alzheimer's disease as horrible and equivalent to that of a terminal disease.
The new year might be coming, it might be a whole new year for us chinese, but lets not rush headfirst into embracing the new beginning without a silent backward look at our past. Feel that regret for all the things that you could have made right, feel the sorrow at all the loss... Only then could we look forward to the promise of the future, with wide open wise(r) eyes.
Happy Lunar New Year!
