15 April 2010
Remember the quote by Socrates, the unexamined life is not worth living? Well, to be honest, I have not been doing any solid reflection for a while now.What has happened in my life?
I got caught up with many things. My holiday trip to Thailand and Vietnam, enlistment into army, and also going out more than ever.
11 April 2010
I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.~ Augustine A. Mandino
02 April 2010
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.~ Mahatma Gandhi
The big picture. Can you grasp it? Can you even place your finger it? Do you understand how huge this universe is? Civilizations rise and fall. Heroes turn to legends. Legends to myths. The present falls back into history. History becomes lost. In the end, all is forgotten. The human species is young. Much younger than one million years. The age of the Earth, more than four billion. And you can count on the age of the universe to be greater than the previous digits mentioned. Estimated to be more than thirteen billion years old.
Insignificance. Do you understand what it means? How many countless souls have lived and died before us? How many of them do we remember? How many are forgotten? What about the people alive here today? Does the farmer on his farmland matter? Does the head of some company matter? No one is indispensable. The world will continue on.
In a few million years time, will anyone matter? If the human race becomes extinct, what legacy - if any - will be left?
So the question remains. Why is it important for me to do whatever I will do?
I only have one answer. This is my life. If I do not make full use of it, it is my life that I waste. I am not going to get a second chance. This is the meaning of my life.
What we do in life, echoes in eternity.
~Maximus, from Gladiator