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when things come to pass
Posted by poeticnook
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3/15/2011 08:51:00 AM
I've used writing as a tool to forget, a way to get things off my mind. Like a phone number that will stick in your subconscious until you find a pen and put it on paper or in this day and age, a mobile phone where you can punch the keys and save it on your address book, thoughts and ideas have a way of infecting the psyche like a virus - this reminds me of a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream sequence from Inception, whatever. Anyway, these days have no reason to be forgotten, or I'm just too lazy to find an excuse to string words together and wait for meaning to come. But the thing is, I don't really need to have a point before I can go log into anonymity and ramble on. I can just start now.
The news about the calamities plaguing Japan right now took me back to a place where everything was so different. It reminded me of the times when I was there and how it felt so safe - a contained bubble where everything moves like clockwork and nothing falls out of place. It's sad that it's almost brewing to be another Kobe mishap but what's more heartbreaking is that there are 50 or so workers who chose to stay at the Fukushima plant to try and fix the issue - talk about dedication to the job. Knowing Nihon, they will surely bounce back but even giants need help in picking up tiny flowers from the ground so it's great that many countries are organizing efforts to aid the land of the rising sun.
It's been a crazy year thus far, and we're only on the third month - a quarter of the year done and three quarters more to go - I wonder what's in store for the rest of us. There's been floods, civil and political unrest, earthquakes, tidal waves and nuclear meltdown - at times like these, we can only pray that the world will still be there when we wake up. But even it doesn't, if the world breaks apart and fades into oblivion, at least we'll know how the afterlife is like.
"You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains." [Matthew 24:6-8]
The news about the calamities plaguing Japan right now took me back to a place where everything was so different. It reminded me of the times when I was there and how it felt so safe - a contained bubble where everything moves like clockwork and nothing falls out of place. It's sad that it's almost brewing to be another Kobe mishap but what's more heartbreaking is that there are 50 or so workers who chose to stay at the Fukushima plant to try and fix the issue - talk about dedication to the job. Knowing Nihon, they will surely bounce back but even giants need help in picking up tiny flowers from the ground so it's great that many countries are organizing efforts to aid the land of the rising sun.
It's been a crazy year thus far, and we're only on the third month - a quarter of the year done and three quarters more to go - I wonder what's in store for the rest of us. There's been floods, civil and political unrest, earthquakes, tidal waves and nuclear meltdown - at times like these, we can only pray that the world will still be there when we wake up. But even it doesn't, if the world breaks apart and fades into oblivion, at least we'll know how the afterlife is like.
"You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains." [Matthew 24:6-8]
