Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 1:08 AM
mann, this is going to be a long post, but oh wells. heh, don't really know where to start from here, been quite a trying time for my part of my family, my aunt just passed away four days ago and its quite amazing how much you can get to see and learn during a funeral. those kind of things which cannot be applied in any A level papers unless you count divinity. hmm, i wonder if i am cursed or something. because everytime i have a major exam, someone would pass away. this had better not continue, or maybe its just a coincidence. of course this isn't the first funeral that i'd been too, but its the one which i pondered over the most. why do people like to deal with absolutes? does right mean right and wrong mean wrong? is there no neutral ground, no comprimise? well, another conclusion that i came to is that people believe in what they want to believe in, which is usually beneficial to them. i caught myself thinking this also, maybe its something that humans have built into them. and i wonder whether compassion is the uniquely human element which defines us. do other organisms mourn the same way as us? at least i know that hamsters and elephants do to a certain extent. funerals are also a time to learn about secrets that you never knew, to see the other facade of someone you thought you knew. and seriously, time is really short.really really short. memories long ago seem like they just happened yesterday. before you know it, you might be standing in front of the pearly gates. hai, i guess that we should all treasure the best, and forget the rest.