With Chinese New Year just days away (Sea, when is it exactly?), I feel it's timely to reflect on the year that's come and gone...For what, I don't know; and really, I don't care. I just feel like doing it.
Well, ok, it's probably coz everyone's doing it, and I just want to see if I'll be a better person next year, after having done a year-end review of how I've lived my life this year.
As with all the years that came before it, 2008 was the best year of my life.
Why shouldn't it be? I mean, I've learnt more about myself, people, and, life in general - more than I ever did before - and I wasn't killed in the process! I'm living and breathing, and feel better about myself than I did the year before - which, like all the years before it, happened to have felt absolutely like the best year of my life!
I'm not being funny here. I couldn't have been more serious when I say that I always prefer the current to the past. Why anyone would prefer the past is simply beyond me. The past, to me, was a period when:
1) I most certainly was more ignorant (and I can most definitely understand that the same doesn't apply to someone who's stopped seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, or do any sort of sensing - well, yes, essentially, I'm refering to anyone that's NOT living, in the way that we've come to understand what living means);
2) The world was definitely more backward (Sea, don't ask me to elaborate on that, I'll knock your head);
3) ALL THE GOOD THINGS THAT CAME WITH IT ARE NOW GONE, FOREVER - I've experienced them much like the way I've enjoyed that piece of chocolate pistachio cake I had for desert tonight: it was scrumptious on my tongue, but once it's worked its way down my esophagous, the only place it's going to end up is my intestines...and the rest is just...well, I've had a sinful piece of rich, moist, nutty chocolate cake, which is probably going to add a fraction of a pound to my weight;
4) I was always uglier
Each year, I have 2 boxes that I would bring along to the following year:
A) People, Experiences and Lessons that I will remember or would want to remember for the rest of my life
B) AGENTS of life's lessons that don't matter
- Family;
- Friends I'm in contact with on both regular and occasional basis; all my old friends in Singapore, HK and Canada; all my ex colleagues, staff and superiors;
- Friends I've made via this space - all who have left comments here, and all those that I have been exchanging emails with
- Those who are reading this and who haven't at one point or another felt like slapping/sucker punching/kicking/killing me (please drop a note so I can put you in my box (A) for 2009!)
- Trading, Trading, Trading!
-D, D, D!!
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Ok, it's empty.
For an obvious reason: the contents don't matter.
In due time, they'll be forgotten anyway, and excreted from my system like desert I've had for dinner that's gone through the final phase of digestion...
And that pretty much sums up how I've been moving on to the next year every year, knowing for a fact that the new year ahead will be the best year of my life.
Well, ok, it's probably coz everyone's doing it, and I just want to see if I'll be a better person next year, after having done a year-end review of how I've lived my life this year.
As with all the years that came before it, 2008 was the best year of my life.
Why shouldn't it be? I mean, I've learnt more about myself, people, and, life in general - more than I ever did before - and I wasn't killed in the process! I'm living and breathing, and feel better about myself than I did the year before - which, like all the years before it, happened to have felt absolutely like the best year of my life!
I'm not being funny here. I couldn't have been more serious when I say that I always prefer the current to the past. Why anyone would prefer the past is simply beyond me. The past, to me, was a period when:
1) I most certainly was more ignorant (and I can most definitely understand that the same doesn't apply to someone who's stopped seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, or do any sort of sensing - well, yes, essentially, I'm refering to anyone that's NOT living, in the way that we've come to understand what living means);
2) The world was definitely more backward (Sea, don't ask me to elaborate on that, I'll knock your head);
3) ALL THE GOOD THINGS THAT CAME WITH IT ARE NOW GONE, FOREVER - I've experienced them much like the way I've enjoyed that piece of chocolate pistachio cake I had for desert tonight: it was scrumptious on my tongue, but once it's worked its way down my esophagous, the only place it's going to end up is my intestines...and the rest is just...well, I've had a sinful piece of rich, moist, nutty chocolate cake, which is probably going to add a fraction of a pound to my weight;
4) I was always uglier
Each year, I have 2 boxes that I would bring along to the following year:
A) People, Experiences and Lessons that I will remember or would want to remember for the rest of my life
B) AGENTS of life's lessons that don't matter
Contents in my box (A) for 2008
People
- Family;
- Friends I'm in contact with on both regular and occasional basis; all my old friends in Singapore, HK and Canada; all my ex colleagues, staff and superiors;
- Friends I've made via this space - all who have left comments here, and all those that I have been exchanging emails with
- Those who are reading this and who haven't at one point or another felt like slapping/sucker punching/kicking/killing me (please drop a note so I can put you in my box (A) for 2009!)
Experiences
- Trading, Trading, Trading!
-D, D, D!!
Lesson
- I'm NOT always rightContents in my box (B)
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Ok, it's empty.
For an obvious reason: the contents don't matter.
In due time, they'll be forgotten anyway, and excreted from my system like desert I've had for dinner that's gone through the final phase of digestion...
And that pretty much sums up how I've been moving on to the next year every year, knowing for a fact that the new year ahead will be the best year of my life.
