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| Friday, April 18, 2008 |
| Are You Listening? |
Wanted to pen about this movie, the wedding...the other day but was so much into David D'Or's music that I had put this aside. My buddy and me went to catch this movie on one of our hectic days whereby we kinda need a good laugh to call it "a day". This movie turned out not to be what we expected it to be. Do not get me wrong, its a good show. Definitely, worth watching. There's still some laughable scenes but if you looking forward to a movie that makes you "laugh till you drop" then it will not meet your expectation.
You must be wondering so why do I insist that it's still a good movie. Cos there're a whole loads of meanings behind this movie. Its not a movie just featuring about marriage, I mean of course from my perspective, it featured more than what the title said.
I recalled that's this scene whereby the lead actor (John Krasinski featured as Ben Murphy) who had just messed up his "going-to-be" wedding day with his fiancee (Mandy Moore featured as Sadie Jones) and was sitting at the pub with his so-called best friend (Deray Davis featured as Joel). Ben was pouring out his broken heart to Joel, trying to explain to Joel that how great a wife that Sadie gonna be. But Joel was trying to put words in a way, so that Ben will forget about the whole thing and move on with life cos the wedding its not gonna occur after all. Despite what Joel stated, Ben continued to sing praises about Sadie. And at that moment, something just strikes him..."Why didn’t I listen to myself?"
The above scene inspired me, to write about this topic. And I guess this gonna be a real confusing topic, so I will try my best to be more precise as I write on.
Many a time when you hit a hindrance barrier in life, what will you do? Hindrance barrier can varies, regardless of its size or amplitude. Do you sit at a corner and ponder about it, trying to sort it all up? Or do you go, in search for friends to confide in? Or you simply try to "run away" from the entire reality altogether? Or when you have an argument with a friend, family members or your partner, do you really hear or know what they’re trying to put across?
Alright…maybe I should give another scenario, not just hindrance barrier. Let’s said that a friend or someone who just came up to you...and seek your advise, or maybe just to discuss certain things, do you really hear or know what that person is trying to tell you? Do you really "feel" that person? Do you really put yourself in the person's shoe before you put across the words that you intend to put through?
Wonder why do I ask you these? My upcoming intention or questions is very simple. But warning first…this is where what I write gonna sound really confusing, read on and close your eyes and listen to that tiny little voice in you. And here it goes:Have you ever or do you ever want to, just push away everything and for once...listen to yourself? Listening to your own "desires", your own "wants" and your own "needs". I guess most of us don’t, maybe due to the fact whereby we do not want to admit to our own "voice". And some of us do, and this cause us to be so self-centred that we simply block all the other voices coming from our friends, family or partner. Have you ever or do you ever really listen to what others say? Do you really listen to the one thing that they try to put through or do you really “feel” the one simple thing that they try to make you understand?
Getting confuse?
Alright, I try to make it much simpler:
Do you listen to yourself when you should?
Do you listen to others when you should?
"Listening" is important in life, it lets you understand yourself better, know what you really wants and also understand others. Therefore, are you listening? |
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| Thursday, April 17, 2008 |
| Life equal to A body with its soul? |
No crowd, no noise…just me sitting at my balcony with clear sky, the calm feeling, and music playing at the background. And I spotted another phenomenon that I have never notice till now. Have you ever seen stars in the sea? Not starfish. While the ship move on, I looked at the water, and saw all these glittering lights in the water, the combination of the sun light reflecting on the sea water, amazing sight. They are just like stars…
This week I had 4 encounters or should I say conversations with 4 friends of mine, on different occasion. Indirectly, it made my mind wonder again…about human beings. What really matter most to this group of creature on earth? It’s well-known that we're social creatures. We can never really be alone. I mean there bound to be human who can be alone all their life, for some reason…I do not know.
Humans, we need somebody to be there but it's not just anybody. All of us might have lotsa friends but somehow deep within us, we might still feel somehow alone…empty. Or the feeling of something is missing but yet we can't really tell what is missing. It's like a body without its soul. There's always that particular one person, you seek to be with. I think we call this particular person, soul mate. Some of us are always in denial of this fact. Denying the fact and reality that we just need that one particular soul in our life, to fill our life with joy. To have that particular person sharing all our precious moments. Or maybe I should say that is not denial, it's just that we can’t seem to find the right person to be the soul of our life. Or that person does not wish to be our soul. Or maybe we thought that a particular person whom we meet, seems to be the soul that our empty shell is seeking but as days goes by, that vision seems to dim and eventually that particular person isn't the right soul anymore. And our body decides to leave that soul, in search for another soul.
Who will be the right soul for you? Who will be, willing to be your soul? Everyone of us, fall in and out of this soul game. Some of us, never really dare to be in the game at all. Some of us do not wanna possess a soul till we are sure that it's the right one that fits our empty shell. As we grow older…we wonder a lot, even a simple thing that we might have done in our younger days, seems to be a difficult task now. The core of the body which is the heart becomes weaker as we grow older. The heart seeks for the soul in the mist of the crowd…not knowing which soul will make it stronger again. Not knowing which soul will break it again. Not knowing which soul have the key to its door.
This entire soul seeking game is a matter of chance and choice. In our life, we have many chances to meet a soul but it’s also our choice to fuse with the soul. So do you think that "Life" equal to "A body with its soul"? |
| posted by Jude @ 11:23 PM |
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| Tuesday, April 15, 2008 |
| Loneliness equals to “you think that you’re alone”? |
This is inspired by a few friends of mine. Not that I am saying that you are all lonely soul…so don’t get piss off. Its just some inspiration that I got from conversation that I might had with any of you. So relax alright.
What is loneliness? Everyone of us feel lonely at certain point of life. Or in fact, many points in time. How this feeling come about? Where does it emerge? When will it exist? I can’t tell. It just simply a feeling that ones felt that they’re all alone in this world. And at that moment, I guess the only person who really understand the source of it, is only yourself.
I had ever went through this stage of “why am I all alone?” but am I really alone? Have you ever ask yourself this question? I guess everyone does, especially when you’re going through the most hectic/drastic point of life. Maybe I should say, some people does, cos not everyone had actually really go through that down point in life. Why do we think “we’re all alone”? Is this really true? Most of us have friends, someone to turn to when things goes wrong. But is it our friends that we’re seeking for comfort from? Or is it that a particular person that you’re looking for…to confide in? Or is it that those friends who you hope that will be there…is never really there? So what is it? What or who you are really looking for when you reach that breaking point? Is it that our circle of friends are getting so small as we grew that we do not know who to confide in? Is it that there’s noone that you can trust to tell the truth? Or comfortable with…to confide in the depth of heart matters?
Some point in my life, I realise that not everyone will be there for you…ya most of the time, we’re kinda “alone”. Everyone have their own life to lead, and some of us…just trying hard not to be jerked at the end of the day. But have you thought of, the only person who can really lift you up at the end of the day…actually is YOU! The only person who can convince you to move on with life…be a happy chap in life…is still nobody other than YOU! Maybe you might think that I am blabbering crap. But let me ask you. Let’s say you found someone to confide your trouble mind….after talking your heart out, whether to move on with life or to cocoon yourself in the mess, is still up to you, isn’t it? You are the one who gonna make the final decision isn’t it? Or maybe, you can’t find anyone to talk to…you still somehow deal with the situation on your own. right? Therefore, don’t you think that the only person who can really bring you out of something, is actually YOU?
I guess most of us think that we’re somehow alone due to the fact that we just wanna “somebody” to be there especially when we’re down, or just simply we do not wanna be alone at all…we just want whoever regardless friends, strangers, colleagues or who-so-ever to be in our “radar range”.
This really make me wonder, can we ever be alone forever…just be on our own…without friends, without anybody else? Does loneliness mean the emptiness of our mind? Or does loneliness equals to “you think that you’re alone”? |
| posted by Jude @ 11:22 PM |
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| Monday, April 14, 2008 |
| Temptation equals to When you're not on guard? |
Temptation, a word with very precise meaning but yet a word with diverse captivation. There's loads of temptation in this whole wide world, ranging from things as simple as food to the most extreme. Is this word, foreign to you?
Alright. Close your eyes...relax, and go through the number of occasions that you had experienced today or maybe in your life to-date. Go through the times whereby there's an urge to do something that doesn't seem to be you or simply the times whereby there's an echo that play like a chant in your mind. Whereby you struggle to get rid of that thought, battling with your inner soul. Does this sound familiar?
Yes. This is what we called Temptation. This insignificant "creature" had somehow crawl...its way into our life. And helplessly,we just fall as preys to this insignificant "predator". You do not know when it will attack, clueless of its existence until it pounce on you and you try to fight back...at times, you manage to break free from the "creature's" grip. But not all the time, you'll be that lucky.
Does temptation indicate that we are weak...defenseless at times? Or does it means "Temptation" equals to "When you're not on guard"? |
| posted by Jude @ 11:18 PM |
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