forgotten
life is all about changes but we all try our mighty best to make things remain as they are. aren't we fighting against life itself then? no wonder we're always so miserable because we can never win and still keep on fighting, struggling.
this is the story of the stubborn man trying to move a mountain. it can never be done, everyone tells him, but the stubborn man will not be told what he can or cannot do. he shifts the mountain everyday till one fine day he could do no more and he died. it CAN be done, he had told himself everyday. yes it can, but it's gonna kill you before that. the stubborn (and now dead) man also did not realise that by moving the mountain, he was merely placing it somewhere else and one day, he or another stubborn person would have to move it again.
fighting, struggling, we do that all our lives but are we gonna win? can we win? perhaps the wisest thing anyone has done was to give up, to rise above it all and realise that we are just here for a ride. enjoy the view but don't bother trying to fight the currents. enjoy it, so when the end comes at least you'll go in peace, knowing that things were actually quite beautiful, a beauty that was never seen by those busy struggling.
it's a beautiful world, but most of the time even i who know of the beauty forget to appreciate it.
written august 2010
this is the story of the stubborn man trying to move a mountain. it can never be done, everyone tells him, but the stubborn man will not be told what he can or cannot do. he shifts the mountain everyday till one fine day he could do no more and he died. it CAN be done, he had told himself everyday. yes it can, but it's gonna kill you before that. the stubborn (and now dead) man also did not realise that by moving the mountain, he was merely placing it somewhere else and one day, he or another stubborn person would have to move it again.
fighting, struggling, we do that all our lives but are we gonna win? can we win? perhaps the wisest thing anyone has done was to give up, to rise above it all and realise that we are just here for a ride. enjoy the view but don't bother trying to fight the currents. enjoy it, so when the end comes at least you'll go in peace, knowing that things were actually quite beautiful, a beauty that was never seen by those busy struggling.
it's a beautiful world, but most of the time even i who know of the beauty forget to appreciate it.
written august 2010
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