Life Snippets

Heavens

The sun shines
with all its glory.
Rises to the zenith
to watch the stories
of lives beneath
-tales of melancholy.

-Marylie C.

(c) Photos by Yours truly

Stylus Strokes: Faces

Rose Undercover.

The Art of Thinking.

Hair-almost.

Self.

Illusion

The picture came first before the actual blog.These are bits n pieces of my life lately. But these pictures aren’t enough to remake the moments of my everyday life,so as yours. Have you ever felt like time is slipping away and you have no means of preserving it? It is a scary thought,specially to a man dying of cancer…I saw a news in my facebook feed a while ago-a man with stage IV liver cancer who died hours after his wedding.Tragic ;(

I guess we should be brave enough to accept that fact,that we can’t preserve time.We can only live in it.And living…is the best way to spend time.

These pictures are nothing but mere triggers-to trigger your brain to remember. That’s the farthest we could get- vague visual projections in our heads. Lately, I’ve been observing how people of this modern day live their lives.Mine included. These are my observations :

• We are too busy.We talk to our gadgets too much.We talk through our gadgets too much.

There are more,but for this post,these are the ones that I want to share. I went to the university a while ago to get my records and I got stuck in this long line for 2 hours. I glanced to my left,did the same to my right.And guess what ,everyone was holding their gadgets.Swipe here.Swipe there.Type.Play. I just wondered what the line could have looked like if people didn’t have their gadgets with them. They could have met a new friend.Started a conversation with someone to ease their boredom.

I could have done that,but I didn’t.I was reluctant to do so.It’s sad to think that a device,made up of plastic and metals-technically lifeless, is more interesting than a person who has an infinite string of thoughts going on in his or her mind. If the device can talk,it would probably insult you and me and say, ” It’s degrading to be like you”. Thankfully it doesn’t. Have they replaced our role?And yes,we speak a lot through them. Overshadowing the real emotions that can be felt when you actually speak to someone,in person.

• Artificial landscapes and lighting makes us feel good.We grew comfortable of the artificial world.

I usually go to tea shops to study or do something.I will admit that I do love the lights.I love the plants outside(or inside) the shop.But at the same time,I also have this habit of going somewhere to infuse my humanity with nature,gardens,parks,staring at the rice fields and mountains during bus rides.There is so much to see and feel.It’s not comfortable to lay down on the dirt,or the grass,or under the tree… but it is worth it. Atleast you’re not confined in a box filled with air coming from the air conditioner.Atleast you see lights of different hues,far more vibrant than an orange lightbulb.

• We are cowards.

We are afraid of the life outside the life that we know.I am guilty of that as well.I know someone who wanted to try living different people’s lives.Are we becoming insensitive of the people around us?Minding no one but ourselves…Or maybe oblivious of our future which could be something better than our present. It’s nice to be comfortable…but it has the ability to stop you from living. Who we are now is different to who we will be tomorrow.

• We laugh,but we forget to smile.

How many of you had a good laugh today?…and how many of you had a genuine smile in his or her face? I dont know if it’s just me,but there’s something special with a smile.Something striking yet fragile,radiant yet crippling. I find smiling harder than laughing. It’s easy to make me laugh,but it’s quite hard to make me smile.Maybe it’s because a laugh is a sign of happiness and a smile…is a sign of joy.

This era of communication,truly creates an illusion of communication.I’m afraid I have to cut this short.That’s it for today.I’m having a headache.