19.9.07
Life
By now I think most of you would have heard about the tragic incident that took place in Phuket, Thailand a couple of days ago. Flight OG269, a Thailand based budget airline aircraft crashed while attempting to land and resulted in 89 fatalities out of the 130 people on board.
I guess to many of you, its is just a piece of news that you happen to hear/see on the media, somehow similar to the news of the earthquake that rocked Indonesia. Seriously, how many of us actually take time off the ponder about what happened and how such events is going to impact those hurt physically/mentally.
Looking at the news, I somehow wonder what are the thoughts going through the minds of those killed just moments before their death. Do they even have time to think? to have their life flash past before them ? to say goodbye to their loves one? or were they gone just as sudden as the impact of the aircraft? And how about those trapped in the flames with their fate sealed. What were they thinking about in their final moments?
I guess none of them in their wildest dream thought that such tragedy is going to befall on them. Like most of us, we often brush such news of such tragedy aside with the mentality that "its not going to happen to me". Sure enough, I bet most on board have such mentality the previous time they saw a disaster news on the media.
My point here is simple. We'll never ever know what and when things are going to happen. So instead of working our a*s off for something that's intangible ( the future ) shouldn't we appreciate our daily life as it is? Looking around me, I see people getting so stressed up by work (well I do get stress up also) and I just wonder are we going to just let the beauty of life just slip through our fingers while we get so caught up with work? How many of us actually live each day as it is instead of looking at them as buffer before endless deadlines?
If the next few moments is your last in this lifetime, what will you be thinking about ? Your tutorials? assignments? term tests? Will you able to smile and said that you have lived your fullest?
I guess many of you reading this entry now are currently tight up with work and deadlines. I just hope that my little entry here will lessen your stress and make that daunting tutorial/assignment/test ahead seems less significant. Sharing with you a beautiful song, "Angel" by Sara McLachlan, and hope each and everyone of you will be able to find your own respective angel ( may it be another person, another place, another activity ) to find comfort in.
Angel
Spend all your time waiting
for that second chance
for a break that would make it okay
there's always one reason
to feel not good enough
and it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
oh beautiful release
memory seeps from my veins
let me be empty
and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight
in the arms of an angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort there
so tired of the straight line
and everywhere you turn
there's vultures and thieves at your back
and the storm keeps on twisting
you keep on building the lie
that you make up for all that you lack
it don't make no difference
escaping one last time
it's easier to believe in this sweet madness oh
this glorious sadness that brings me to my knees
Spend all your time waiting
for that second chance
for a break that would make it okay
there's always one reason
to feel not good enough
and it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
oh beautiful release
memory seeps from my veins
let me be empty
and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight
in the arms of an angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort there
so tired of the straight line
and everywhere you turn
there's vultures and thieves at your back
and the storm keeps on twisting
you keep on building the lie
that you make up for all that you lack
it don't make no difference
escaping one last time
it's easier to believe in this sweet madness oh
this glorious sadness that brings me to my knees
SJ blogged at 02:28 0 comments
