Posted by tad.adrian@gmail.com in July 9, 2009
“Boring Punya rambling” from TAd to Arietans, et all
(but please read on ‘ til the end…)
Lost Love & all things “…ship”
27 years ago in 1982, hardly no one knew each other. Through the years then, everyone started having each other. Five years later in 1986, everyone started losing each other.
So life is about finding, losing, searching, and finding again until it comes to a stop. Today I saw two kids whom I assume are friends, sitting on a bench near Starbucks Café playing with each other’s gadget, and I thought, the edge of technology has come to its edge of bringing “friendship” apart. Sitting alone, I had the privilege of observing, an observation I like to regard its term as “character study”. No, I am not Hercule Poirot and definitely not Miss Maple from Agatha Christie’s novels (which I wonder if modern day kids now read as compared to Harry Potter). Neither am I Sherlock Holmes, nor Inspector Barnarby of Midsomer Murder series. But I do observe, I just can’t help it for seeing is believing. So powerful the power of ‘another’ life called the cyber world that people today lose their love, physically at least. Many a kid (or man) finds love in his virtual world. It’s so much Anderson and Neo of ‘The Matrix’, not so much of Keanu Reeves himself. It’s so much to “username” and “password” than ‘full name’ and ‘mykad number’. So I thought, what is left of us in many years to come? Perhaps “The Terminator” movie will become a reality when human no longer controls the earth, but having to fight for salvation? What then? Is human not brought to this earth by God as His caliph? Does that mean that is the end of the world before the Judgement Day? These are questions I always have to myself whenever I am in the company of solitude.
But I am a simple man, and a simple man with a simple mind knows that if you don’t know me by now, I prefer to think positive. Be positive. Life is not all that bad. Whatever current we are in, be it political or otherwise, we are loved, at least by God. He looks over us and He is everywhere, that I know. The kid sitting on the bench not far from where I was may have been lost like Alice in Wonderland in his gadget. But he is real. His friend next to him is real. And although both of them may have lost their closeness of friendship, they may be closer to another kind of “…ship” in their virtual world. I want to call it “cybership”… but you may have your own term you prefer.
And I am writing this as a special dedication to all those I have not seen for many years, to let you know that the love I have is not lost and the “friendship”, “relationship”, “brotherhood” (I wish the creator of English language had called it ‘brothership’) live on and here we find each other again in our hearts in this “cybership”…
I continue rambling in my heart as I look up to the sky and wonder if I could ever see the seven stars…
- TAd, 104th Arietans -
Posted by tad.adrian@gmail.com in July 1, 2009
When I decided to start afresh blogging here, I wanted to run from the real world, virtual life somehow seems like spiritual in its own kind. Some things that you feel but not touch. Somehow ambiguous. The ambiguity may translate into what I may be writing from now onwards, as many a time I myself am not sure what I know for sure and what I do not, what I really feel and what I don’t. Confusion clouds me at times. But it’s just me. I am what I am, and what I am is what I am. I am not complaining. Many a time too, in the past, I acted the way I should not have acted, had I used my brain that God gives us human as His greatest gift. Yes, I have made mistakes in life, quite a number of them if I were able to count. I know they say that “to err is human, and to forgive is divine” - and I find such divinity in the people I had wronged who forgive me for what I had done unto them, though I must say that not all of my past mistakes would involve another party.
