where thoughts materialise.

So we're into the sixth version of my blog after the last version hung around for a year or so.

Now, a bit of info on this image. This photo was taken one lovely spring afternoon, featuring the iconic Old Well from the UNC Chapel Hill campus. I would like to think of this image as a tribute to my time in UNC Chapel Hill, the awesome friends I made and the memories I now hold dear.

A milestone in my life indeed.

I've dropped the tagboard cos its useless and taking eons to load. But thanks to Angela who helped me set it up, I still do like and will miss the pink interface.

So yeah, it's the sixth one you fellas!

Yours.

27 April 2008

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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

The human existence is a celebration, and a struggle, from cradle to grave.

I wonder if you have ever given a thought about the human race. How, we as a species of the multitude of living organisms cohabiting this world today, are a highly superiorly made being functioning on a level no other organisms can thrive on - not even the cleverest monkeys mind you.

Intriguing indeed. And it is not just that we are a premium species (if i can even use 'species', for it makes me feel low), but more significantly, the huge and gargantuan gap between humans and any other species to ever walk this earth.

Doesn't it make you wonder about this world, and life in general? Somehow, something has engineered the human race to a level beyond the reach of other organisms of today. A pure coincidence of atoms and molecules evolving?

Then we can also delve into the moral and philosophical level of the sanctity of life. How we possess the little extra something, rationality perhaps, that animals don't (a soul perhaps?), which makes us capable of complex emotions and sentimentality, to know that savage killing is wrong (animals surely do not adhere to that) and to allow us to mourn over deaths of loved ones. We seem to be living under a general natural law that governs our behavior, something innate that cannot be denied or refused.

How can humans, possessing complex and real emotions, capable of high order memory and intellect, just live for 80 odd years and then die to become, literally, nothing?

There has got to be more to life.

Consider this.

nimgnoy let the night fall at 1:47 PM

2 comments

2 Comments:

At 5:51 PM, jun said...: there's gotta be more to life; i was humming that lyric to myself just days ago man
At 11:21 AM, Anonymous said...: ta da!

actually i was thinking of that song when i wrote that line too.

ym