Out into the big unknown

I don't understand many things. Most times, I don't understand people. I like scientific & tangible concepts. Like facts. Like figures. As even when they baffle and shock, I still know what they are and how I stand with them.

But people, they are another thing. Altogether. They keep wanting to be somewhere. That is why they talk. You have to agree with them at some point. And when you do, you are preparing to tell them where they are. And that is when they find a new place to get lost in.

A morning in Paris

30th March 2005
AP Photo / Francois Mori

Fireflies in the Garden

Here come real stars to fill the upper skies
And here on earth come emulating flies
That though they never equal stars in size
They at times achieve a very star-like start
And how earnest I hope they could sustain the part

Robert Frost (Adapted)

Life, they say, is just like a movie

Perhaps that is why we all project so much on to one another. But even if it is just a passing show, it feels very real. And to different people, at different times, it follows a very different theme. For some it is an action-packed adventure, for others, a romance. Or maybe a soap opera, a detective drama or a simple tale of the struggle to survive.

The Bridges of Madison County

Just finished flipping through The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller. The writing style is too simple, thus failing to do justice to the powerful and poignant message of the book. And in my present frame of mind, a denser prose would no doubt have made my heart ache more I guess.

Proving the point

Many elements of the Imperium believe they hold the ultimate power: the Spacing Guild with their monopoly on interstellar travel, CHOAM with its economic stranglehold, the Bene Gesserit with their secrets, House Corrino with their throne & the Great and Minor Houses of the Landsraad with their extensive holdings. Woe to us on the day that one of those factions decides to prove the point. --– Count Hasimir Fenring, Dispatches from Arrakis.

In the waiting room of life...

... we are all in a queue for something. No matter how active or busy we keep ourselves, we are always hoping for something to happen or for something to turn up.

Sometimes, we might get a little impatient. Other times, we do want a particular development to take place and perhaps suspect that at any moment now, it will do. Yet we can't force the change to come about and neither can we relax while there's a chance that it may.

"Never put off till tomorrow...

... what you can do today". But how do we know what we can do today? Very often, we either under-estimate or over-estimate the amount of activity we can cram into a 24 hour period.

Yet there's one thing we can always manage to do today – and that's to put something off until tomorrow. But well at the end of the day, I guess the point really is that if you really want something and that you really really mean it, just go ahead and do whatever you have to today.