Haiz....life is short...really short...shorter than we tot
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Yesterday morning ard 6am I was driving home after sending my fren home in Geylang...then I was going towards the Paya Lebar exit for PIE towards Airport...just then I saw a Mercedes cab involved in an accident...not far away is an overturned bike and just a few metres away was a corpse covered with white cloth....police was there, cant do much waiting for the van to come pick up the corpse....
As I was past the scene...as i think back at the scene of the white cloth covering the corpse, I am not ashamed to say, I was sobbing...because I cannot comprehend how the family will react and cope....I cannot comprehend the person just gone like this....fading into eternity. Life is really short and really taught me to be careful on the roads too...
Sometimes we think we have a long way to go....and these words came to my mind..."If all men will die one day, what makes you think it cant be today?" Not wanting to smack of pesimissm but instead to urge all of us to treasure lives...]
Maybe we will all say "there are people dying every minute out there." But it is really when I see it myself, thats when the reality of it all sets in.
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tats the sad truth of life....
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Another lesson learnt...
I witnessed the passing away of a relative recently also... due to cancer.
I guess these things really teach us to cherish the moment, and the people and the things around us... and we grow to love them more... -
One of my favourite shows is Bicentennial Man. Robin Williams plays as a robot servant. In his existence, he sought the meaning of life and lived to make himself human. He made himself artificial skin, learnt what is emotions, learnt about human sociolgoy, etc.
In the ending part of the show, he asked to become declared as a human by the government. But he was rejected because as a robot, he is immortal. He couldn't die. He lived on and realised the emptiness of living forever. His loved ones passed away, while he live on. And so he researched on and transfused blood into his system and made himself mortal, and found to be at peace.
In another movie we all know, The Lord of the Rings. Mortality in humans is actually a gift. The elves live an endless life in Middle Earth only to find peace in the West Paradise of Valinor.
What I'm trying to say is that death may seem like a curse to us; bring life to a standstill. But if we make use of the time we have on earth meanginfully and purposefully, then we leave this life without regrets.
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That reminded me of my late grandma.
I was by her bedside when she passed on. That was about two years back le. But everytime I see fatal accidents or diseases that took lifes away stories, I thought of her. She is a great woman. My utmost regret is... not appreciating her when she is alive. Do you actually know what are my last words to her?
"Ming dian zai shuo lah." *sighs* I guess there isnt really any ming dian to tell her. She died of stroke at 91. *sniffles* -
sorry to hear that dudu.. she must have been very dear to you..
i think it's most important that we don't wait for tomorrow to show love.. don't wait to appreciate them -
ppl dn cherish is true
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think i sort of learnt to treasure life more, after i came close to commiting suicide. sitting there on the ledge i was asking myself if i wanted to die yet, if i still had unfufiled dreams, was the pain so bad it was worth ending it all at the price of having unfufiled dreams, and if i have anything still worth living for.
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Yeah. Regret so much at her funeral. My eyes were like swollen all the time. Ugly sia. o.O
Anyway, I am treating my parents very good. Friends too. Gotta love them. -
Wah.. Suicidal.. Bad.
Actually, I think every singaporean thought of suicide before. Even I did. I cut my wrists, bleed a lil only, hurt a LOT! :/ Blame it in the gahment lah!
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owww... i never cut myself intentionally b4, even at the point i was sucidal i owned lots of knives. i was hoping to get a gun n shoot my brains out after going to school to do a mass massacre, but u know lah thats why singapore dun have guns. anyway i wanted to jump but i sat n thought long n hard 1st and decided i wanna live and stick 2 fingers up to those who had made my life not worth living.Originally posted by Dudu:Wah.. Suicidal.. Bad.
Actually, I think every singaporean thought of suicide before. Even I did. I cut my wrists, bleed a lil only, hurt a LOT! :/ Blame it in the gahment lah! -
Thank God that both of you are still alive to make things better
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i live to serve................green teaOriginally posted by sillyme:Thank God that both of you are still alive to make things better
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life is short... hence do make full use of the time we haf, to do the things we realli want to do, and put in all the passion and efforts into them, cos u never noe when tt will be the last time u can do it...
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*ding ding ding*Originally posted by HENG@:i live to serve................green tea
don't spoil thread hor
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all i can say is try to live the best out of our lives.. no one knows when we will die, and it's all in a matter of choices. U can choose to be happy or sad. U can choose to live life happily without regrets or choose to live life meaninglessly as well..
in short, it's ur choice
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haha okOriginally posted by sillyme:*ding ding ding*
don't spoil thread hor -
Life is reali short...
So u muz reali cherish wat u've got now n treasure ur life too... -
ya all can try stepping on the brink of death and just think. u'd be suprised how suddenly everything seems clear.