...goes the weasel: July 2008

Monday, July 28, 2008

The First One

And so it begins. Launch of the new one. All of sudden, all the thoughts that I had developed in my mind for all the subsequent posts on this particular page seem to slip away. Oh well.

As I look into that deep, dark night sky, framed with those approximately twenty-floor HDB blocks, I realise that there are simply no stars to be seen. How amazing. And yet, the reason is oh-so-simple. Bright lights created by us clever humans are just simply too bright to allow those tiny, weak little sparks of lights, no matter how fiercely they may burn millions of light years away, to be seen. Wow, that was an extremely long sentence. Thanks to those 'achievements', I can't even sing 'look at the stars, look how they shine for you' without feeling a little bit dumb. How ironic then, that the every progress we strive to achieve, also results in us being unable to enjoy the simple pleasures in life, just looking at bright things in the sky.

Ah bright things. Us humans just have that unexplained fixation with anything bright. Or shiny. Or gleaming. Whatever the case, anything with those qualities are just simply more valued than other stuff. Even just the most basic carbon can become highly valued. Even the brighter metals are greatly valued. Such a deep, primal and instinctive trait that we all just simply have.

And that, is the paradox of humanity. We work hard to do things harder, better, faster, stronger, but at what price? But then again, paradoxes are perhaps some of those things certain in life. Batman has Joker, George Bush has Osama bin Laden, and I have time. Well, that one fell a little flat. But whatever the case, one simply cannot live without the other. Black is nothing if unable to be compared with the white. People wouldn't feel hot in the summer if the winter wasn't so cold. Its all just a matter of providing a guage for us to compare with.

Anyways, its getting kinda late, and I'm losing this mood of pensiveness. Gotta end soon. Bye.