Courageous or Stupidity?
Okie, its finally time for the town council to put up a fresh coat of paint for my block. I guessed they were suppose to start a week ago or so because all the necessary gadgets were all placed nicely at the void deck but nothing was done to it only until this Monday.
Before they even started, they prayed and offered offerings. This is the first time that i'm seeing this though and i was pretty surprised. Do indians pray to the same gods as the chinese do? That got a grin on my face though as i was very much tickled by that stupid thought of mine.
So they started washing the walls with the same machine used during the washing of the floors of the block. You know, that machine that churns out huge and strong jets of water... Yeah, that's the one i'm talking about. So, once they're done, i realised its time for me to do some cleaning on my part. My window panes were damn freaking dirty from the washing on the outside. Darn! More work for me.
I then stood on my table to clean the exterior of the window. Normally, i wouldn't winch at doing such a task ( i stay on the 15th storey by the way), but for some unknown reason, i started to get goosebumps every time i looked down to the plundering heights. I felt fear for the first time while cleaning windows. It was a kind of a weird feeling; a sudden burst of butterflies in your stomach and it led me thinking, those people who commit suicide by hurling themselves of great heights...
COURAGE or STUPIDITY???
If with the support of window grilles and i'm already getting all jittery, i can't imagine what is going through their minds at that point of time. Perhaps they are too bogged up with other matters that they do not realise what exactly they are doing. So this leads me to yet another point.
Suicidal people, are they courageous or stupid?
My stand? They are stupid. I mean, yeah, it sure take you lots of guts to commit suicide, be it hurling yourself over the building, slashing your wrist, popping yourself with medication, hanging yourself or the thousand and one ways of dying. However, facing up to your own problems shows more courage and guts rather than taking the easy way out of dying.
God gave us all a life for a purpose. If even an ant struggles to run after being trampled on, a cockroach scampering for dear life after being targetted as a pest. Needless to say, i feel that human beings should have more fighting spirit than other low beings. After all, we're God's prized possesion after His Son.
We should cherish life even more because He died so that we could live.
Before they even started, they prayed and offered offerings. This is the first time that i'm seeing this though and i was pretty surprised. Do indians pray to the same gods as the chinese do? That got a grin on my face though as i was very much tickled by that stupid thought of mine.
So they started washing the walls with the same machine used during the washing of the floors of the block. You know, that machine that churns out huge and strong jets of water... Yeah, that's the one i'm talking about. So, once they're done, i realised its time for me to do some cleaning on my part. My window panes were damn freaking dirty from the washing on the outside. Darn! More work for me.
I then stood on my table to clean the exterior of the window. Normally, i wouldn't winch at doing such a task ( i stay on the 15th storey by the way), but for some unknown reason, i started to get goosebumps every time i looked down to the plundering heights. I felt fear for the first time while cleaning windows. It was a kind of a weird feeling; a sudden burst of butterflies in your stomach and it led me thinking, those people who commit suicide by hurling themselves of great heights...
COURAGE or STUPIDITY???
If with the support of window grilles and i'm already getting all jittery, i can't imagine what is going through their minds at that point of time. Perhaps they are too bogged up with other matters that they do not realise what exactly they are doing. So this leads me to yet another point.
Suicidal people, are they courageous or stupid?
My stand? They are stupid. I mean, yeah, it sure take you lots of guts to commit suicide, be it hurling yourself over the building, slashing your wrist, popping yourself with medication, hanging yourself or the thousand and one ways of dying. However, facing up to your own problems shows more courage and guts rather than taking the easy way out of dying.
God gave us all a life for a purpose. If even an ant struggles to run after being trampled on, a cockroach scampering for dear life after being targetted as a pest. Needless to say, i feel that human beings should have more fighting spirit than other low beings. After all, we're God's prized possesion after His Son.
We should cherish life even more because He died so that we could live.
posted by D at 4/14/2005 05:05:00 PM
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