Friday, July 06, 2007
The meaning of inevitable to my perception would be: It will happen simply because it cannot be avoided. This topic crossed my mind when Yi Shen, Zhi Yang and me were discussing over certain issues in gardens one fine night. It appears that we have not yet come to any conclusiveness to what we discussed. Since this issue has been in the back of my mind for some time, so i decided to do something about it, which is what i'm doing here.

Perhaps most would recall the once popular love song titled 'Come What May'. The simplest of lines to describe the irony and ambivalence of the word 'inevitable'. The general public would agree on certain common things, facts that are 'inevitable' i.e. Death. So let us examine the inevitable-ness of death and some pretty logical reasons why we should or should not fight this 'Death'. It would be, to me, one of the easiest to talk about since it will happen, it cannot be avoided and simply because it is the extreme example of what we would call 'inevitable'.

Most would say that we dread dying but we are incapable of fighting death so we live life to the fullest and die contented in the knowledge that we lived meaningfully. That sort of thing. We fight death everyday, every single moment in life and in every breath we take. I know this sounds lame, but, by the virtue of the fact that you choose to keep breathing shows that you are fighting death. People always say that you cannot dont breathe, it is innate and an instinct. Exactly the point, You forget the fact that since you have the natural ability to keep sustaining your life, you are designed to fight death. Look at the littlest of things that you do each day. You only cross the road when you feel sure that you wont be knocked down by a car. When you sit in a fast moving vehicle, you feel exhilarated and yet uncomfortable at the same time because you fear for your life. So, when initially you are meant to fight the 'inevitable' death whether conciously or not, there is no question as to whether you should fight the 'inevitable' but the question is 'Can you ?'.

Let's move on to something less extreme. Let's talk about hope. In a match against an opponent who has again and again beat the crap out of you, do you still go in with the hope that maybe this will be the day where they slip, where by some miraculous intervenation, God finally lifts his hand and crush those opposing imbeciles ? Most people would. Even if all facts and statistics point to the inevitable-ness of they being better than you and thus foretelling quite certainly that they will win, you still hang on to the hope of overturning their winning streak. Hope is a poweful characteristic of human beings, gentlemen. As long as it still burns in you, you will keep fantasizing that fate will change in your favour.

Time is short, it compels me to cut this short. However, i do not want you to go away with the feeling that 'Alson is talking crap again'. Examine yourself, examine what you do each day. When you take that intake of air, examine again. You are entitled to disbelief what i say, or to treat it as lame since i am talking about things which sounds ... lame. It is essentially because you feel this way which is why you go about each day without really understanding 'Why do it ?' But, it is something to talk about another day.
by ~me~ at 10:08 PM ©

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