or maybe it's 'cause everyone else is too busy working or doing their internships (which puts a little pressure on my empty holidays but it's okay), that blogs seem to be less frequently updated?
i don't know... this is probably shallow speculation on my part for i remember last year at this time i was busy posting after just starting this blog! 20 posts for my debut month, and if you don't believe me you can check the archives... that's like 2 posts every 3 days so i must have been really free during that period too.
in any case, here we are at the month of may again - the month where a full academic year has just come to a close and the long summer break has commenced, where we wait agonizingly for the sms on results day.
just like how a year has passed since this blog was initiated, it has also been a year since arts fest 2011, and the postcard that we filled up under that particular tree has finally been mailed to us one year on.
there are many things to be said about the postcard: the words, the signatures, the handwritings, positions, orientations, slants etc. but overall it generates a nice feeling to receive this postcard, and with this i am reminded of how things have changed over these 12 months. if we were to all write and sign another postcard meant for us in 2013, how different might the postcard look this time round?
last night i was lying down awaiting to sleep when a thought hit me. (in fact, most of my interesting thoughts and philosophies come up late at night as i am about to fall asleep, and it is a shame because most of the time i am too lazy to get back up, turn on the lights, and write them down.) however, on this occasion i do remember it and here goes.
it occurred to me that life, is somewhat like the journey a water droplet takes, from the top of the mountain, down the streams and rivers, into the lakes, meanders, valleys, and finally into the oceans. and we are all small water droplets.
sometimes we have our highs, near the water surface where there is much light and warmth... sometimes we have our lows, deep underwater where it is dark and cold.
there are always disturbances in the water, we can rarely experience true peace (just like how in life we can relate to this).
the water droplets beside you that accompany you during different courses of your journey down to the ocean are always changing... you make friends with many different water droplets along the way, but most you will never meet in your lifetime.
some droplets travel faster than others, some travel slower. sometimes you manage to find a few good ones and you stick together for long periods, but along the way separation into different streams and paths is often inevitable. if you are lucky, you may run into each other again somewhere down the river.
sometimes, water droplets are fortunate enough to find another that will stick with them all the way to the ocean.
and most importantly, the flow of the river is always one-way. you can never go back to a previous point, as you will not pass the same point ever again once you have left it behind.
this is to say that once things are done, they cannot be undone, so don't regret anything in life because once things are set in stone they cannot be changed. we should all just learn from our experiences, take them as lessons, and move on.
here's a nice song to listen to while you ponder about the river analogy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-4wUfZD6oc
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