Monday, October 08, 2007
i know im slow..but im still reading her "Tuesdays With Morrie".
and yes i admit the story is moving.
it somehow gave me a different perception of death too.. honestly i tink of death everyday.. theres this fear everytime i tink of it..am i always ready for it? well everyone wants to go to the pardise that god promised rite?
like Steve Jobs once said in his speech.. "even people who wants to go to heaven do not want to die to get there"..
but i guez its just inevitable. i'm always caught up with everything in this materialistic world and not the simple things that are around me..and when i tink of death..all of it doesnt matter anymore..usually we only learn to appreciate the essentials in our life only when we realise that death is lurking..
i've watched this show about this man who was rich and had almost everything..he was always busy with his work..he had a wife and two kids..but hes divorced and the kids lives with their mom..and when he found out that he was dying from this illness, he suddenly realised that his work and wealth wasnt that important at all..he got fired coz he was busy trying to get back to his family..he tried sending his children to school everyday and spend more time with them..he tried to be in good terms with his wife again too..noone knows about his dying situation except himself..all he cared was to spend his last minutes with the people he loves most around him..well of coz theres a twist in the story lah..he dinch die coz it turned out that theres a miracle for a cure to his illness..and wen he noes that hes gona live..he stayed by his family instead of trying to get that job and wealth back..eventually he died due to some other reason..but at least he learned how to live the way it shud..at least he was satisfied with what he had around him now before he died..his loved ones..
so theres this part of the book that really caught my attention..there its written
"most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do."
And facing death changes all that?
"Oh yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everthing much differently."
He sighed. "Learn how to die, and you will learn how to live."
hahas..i know lah..this entry is like so not me rite? and those lines from the book i took..someone also had put it before on her blog..lol..i tink she will noe if she reads this..but its just something that i wanted to share with..i tink it realli changes the way we see things wen we tink of death..constantly..
anyhoos..i missed that gal who hated kambings :)
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