Sunday, February 20, 2005
Woke up reluctantly this morning to find myself back at home.. also with the nagging thought at the back of my head that today is book-in day.I don't know why. Ever since I got back yesterday, it's been like a dream all the way.. I don't feel real anymore; I can hear my voice speaking to my parents, yet I don't recall even having a part in shaping the contents of my own conversations. Even as I'm writing this, my mind seems devoid of emotion.. Didn't bother about breakfast, thinkI'll be skipping lunch. Is that what NS does to you? Strip you of any humane feelings once present in your heart, and bury it in the deepest part of the ocean.. make laughter seem like a sin, and joy the forbidden fruit, once abundant but now disappeared from the face of this Earth... makes you begin to wonder the various reasons why grown-ups always stress "enjoy you youth" and "studying is the most happy time of your life".. and the sudden realisation that came too late. The acceptance of the fact that life is a bed of roses; the thorns prick and tear at your bare soles, and if you wear something else to protect your tender feet, all that will be left behind are damaged petals and dead flowers.. either way one party has to get hurt.I got this song from her blog.. something like being a "big big girl in this big big world, and it's not a big big thing if you leave me".. remembered I used to condemn the lyrics, and I still do. Just thinking of the road ahead in life, now that we are all adults. Nothing remains constant but change, and so far we've been like earthworms, making tunnels in the soft earth, wiggling about in unsurpassed joy, protected by the layer of soil above us.. and now some greater force has removed our blanket of protection, blinding us with the intense light, our bodies writhing in the unbearable heat, screaming in agony.. and all of a sudden it's dark, and our charred bodies are now frozen in the night, so numb the pain has faded away... with the dagger buried deep in the heart, the fact that no one can save us.. once there was my mother to shield me from the dangers that lay ahead; now I know she can't protect me anymore.. I'm on my own. I want to be brave, I want to be strong.. but inside..I feel so small inside. So weak and helpless.. like a stranded sailor clinging on piece of wood, paddling against the huge, monstrous looking tides that threaten to sweep him away...Remembered that time I was sitting in the corner of the tonnel.. so dark and gloomy.. the floor was wet, and there was no one I could talk to.. just tried to hold on to my seat as the street lamps flashed past, momentarily lighting up the empty road, where I could see the sudden flashes of sharp rocks and jagged stones. Then I was singing this song my mother used to teach me when I was little.. I couldn't remember the words exactly, but whistle the tune I could.. it was like a few soulful notes floating towards the velvet sky...Setbacks might make one stronger.. but every time they take some part of you away. All that nonsense about not being to either create matter and destroy matter is true.. there's no such thing as a free gift. To be tougher, one has to shed emotion and remove compassion..You know the saying that everyone has a soft inside? I beg to differ. Everyone is made of stone internally, some a little stronger, some a little less refined.. it just takes time to remove the outer tissue and reveal what we truly are inside. We are inborn with survival instincts; we were not meant to be human anyway.
_'Jx]- faded at 11:23 AM