Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Shoot The Moon
I wondered if the news had gotten out. Research has shown that the moon is starting to shift out of course and around 2030, we won't have a moon anymore. Some scientist suggested building two artificial moons. One for the northern hemisphere, one for the southern.
ok, I lied
But the thing is, if one day the moon is no longer there, what will people do?
From the people I know, it seems to me that we'll just build a moon..
But is the moon just a moon to us?
like the moon, I suspect, we tell people that many other things are just events.. things that we can easily replace. we have such complex thought processes that sometimes our reasons are totally out of point. using the moon as the example, we often talk about the moon but never about the events that happened under the moonlight- which are actually what is important
How many times have we heard someone saying that a teddy bear or bookmark is irreplaceable?
Why is this so? I figure it has something to do with that object growing to be part of a memory, and it had occupied a space in our hearts.
And it is this 'matter of the heart' that is so tricky and scary..
coz once it grows in your heart, there is no turning back..
Do you have such and object?
One that triggers the emotions, the smell and even touch..
An object that no one, no place, no time can replace...
I have a friend who often think himself as a lost soul. So he turns to a higher power and devotes most of his time and effort to finding himself. He often complains that he has a distance between us because he is often absent at our outings and meet-ups.
So I often wonder to myself that if this is the exact power that is taking him after from what he can have and enjoy now. Would one have use for the enlightenments he has found when he's 99 years old and on his death bed? When he has lost those precious years he could have with his friends and companions?
but after looking deeper into the matter, i found out that it's not that he has no time for his friends. but he has found another group of friends that he is investing his time on.
then it occurs to me, as i am writing this, that i am an expired good friend.
But I guess this is the best thing for leaving your past, isnt it? The idea of becoming a new person. a new life. a new start.
You are no longer the crybaby, the unsure one, the heartbroken one. You get to be be a new person and the people around you now have no first hand knowledge about your past.
I wonder about the many people in my past.
Some left me. some got left behind by me.
Are they still doing the things we did together?
eating the same dish?
playing the same games?
do they think of me?
"ah.. but you'll find someone who will love you better, " I hear a voice say at the back of my head. but I am missing the point here, am I not?
Everything that I'm gloomy about are those that are in my blood, my veins, my heart.
And they will always follow me.. in my shadow, in the laughter, the the purple evening gown
Breathe in the new air
it may hurt a bit
But nothing hurts more when I am standing next to last in your heart
so I'm gonna bid you farewell
for my destiny is not here
not here, waitin next to nothing
ok, I lied
But the thing is, if one day the moon is no longer there, what will people do?
From the people I know, it seems to me that we'll just build a moon..
But is the moon just a moon to us?
like the moon, I suspect, we tell people that many other things are just events.. things that we can easily replace. we have such complex thought processes that sometimes our reasons are totally out of point. using the moon as the example, we often talk about the moon but never about the events that happened under the moonlight- which are actually what is important
How many times have we heard someone saying that a teddy bear or bookmark is irreplaceable?
Why is this so? I figure it has something to do with that object growing to be part of a memory, and it had occupied a space in our hearts.
And it is this 'matter of the heart' that is so tricky and scary..
coz once it grows in your heart, there is no turning back..
Do you have such and object?
One that triggers the emotions, the smell and even touch..
An object that no one, no place, no time can replace...
I have a friend who often think himself as a lost soul. So he turns to a higher power and devotes most of his time and effort to finding himself. He often complains that he has a distance between us because he is often absent at our outings and meet-ups.
So I often wonder to myself that if this is the exact power that is taking him after from what he can have and enjoy now. Would one have use for the enlightenments he has found when he's 99 years old and on his death bed? When he has lost those precious years he could have with his friends and companions?
but after looking deeper into the matter, i found out that it's not that he has no time for his friends. but he has found another group of friends that he is investing his time on.
then it occurs to me, as i am writing this, that i am an expired good friend.
But I guess this is the best thing for leaving your past, isnt it? The idea of becoming a new person. a new life. a new start.
You are no longer the crybaby, the unsure one, the heartbroken one. You get to be be a new person and the people around you now have no first hand knowledge about your past.
I wonder about the many people in my past.
Some left me. some got left behind by me.
Are they still doing the things we did together?
eating the same dish?
playing the same games?
do they think of me?
"ah.. but you'll find someone who will love you better, " I hear a voice say at the back of my head. but I am missing the point here, am I not?
Everything that I'm gloomy about are those that are in my blood, my veins, my heart.
And they will always follow me.. in my shadow, in the laughter, the the purple evening gown
Breathe in the new air
it may hurt a bit
But nothing hurts more when I am standing next to last in your heart
so I'm gonna bid you farewell
for my destiny is not here
not here, waitin next to nothing
