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#NowPlaying "Writing's On The Wall" by Sam Smith from Writing's On The Wall
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#CafeConquests
Banoffee pie and Cheesecake. The Humble Pie co. Section 17, Petaling Jaya
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#FOODFORTHOUGHT : Inherently nice.
If someone who's considered to be 'nice', when faced with life's adversaries, instead wishes to be the exact opposite, then perhaps that person is not inherently 'nice' to begin with.
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#TheLuhverSeries 005.
Happy Momma-to-be Day!
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I have so much of you in my heart.
John Keats
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SS14 #10.
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C O M I N G × S O O N .
Travellin' Jack.
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C O M I N G × S O O N .
Jack and Jill.
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C O M I N G × S O O N .
Jack-in-a-box.
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C O M I N G × S O O N .
Jack be nimble.
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#FOODFORTHOUGHT : Normal.
It was this particular passage that got my attention about the kind of world we live in. The interviewee was a mere housewife with two children, living a normal life, and that's exactly what the problem is, isn't it?
Normal.
It was "normal" that we are burdened with so many first world problems: Is my job paying enough? Is it enough for me to pay my bills and keep this comfortable roof above my head? Is it enough for me to splurge sometimes on myself? Is my job secure, will someone overthrow me from it? What can I do to keep it secure? What can I do to make it more secure? Etc, etc. And that's just the tip of the iceberg; the worries that come hand-in-hand with relationships, marriage, friends, sickness - heck, even by getting a car... Anything that requires "commitment". This is our "normal" life, and it is this exact normalcy that threw this woman and her family into the deep end.
"Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature."
The irony of us being, well, us, is what will be the end of us.
Throughout Max Brooks' World War Z, you read about countries and the things they hold so close to their chests that they have grown roots into the very veins of their hearts and minds. You read about countries so buried in their century old cultures and traditions; countries with their fears of another country and the blind rebellion and caution that come with this fear; countries so comfortable with their confidence, their "normalcy"... And it was these generations-long of accumulations, these beliefs that made them different from one another - be it geographically or individually or continentally - decide the fate of those countries.
It was at the earlier pages of the book that I realised that if something bad were to happen to the world - doesn't necessarily have to be a zombie outbreak; it could be something as plain as a Third World War or global warming or Armageddon - if something were to happen to all of us, we're doomed. And when it is all said and done, and we would like a chance to point fingers to feel better about our bitterness, have a clearer picture on who/what to direct all these hatred to, we have but only to look in the mirror ourselves.
You can't change it. I can't change it. Nobody can change it. Because that's just how it is. It's our "normal" life. It's what made us - us. Whatever is going to happen in the unforeseeable future, the present is still our priority. We still have jobs to keep, comfortable apartments to live in, relationships and marriages to keep afloat, diseases to keep at bay, mortgages and car loans to pay off. That's just the part and parcel of life. I mean, it would be crazy to just let go of all of these "commitments" and just go into isolation in some deserted forest, stockpile on food and clothes and personal treasures, all because of what "might" happen in the future to the human species, something you read in a book, or watched in a movie. It would be insane.
Or would it?
I don't know. I mean, from where I am sitting right now, I would not give up on anything just because of what Max Brooks wrote, and what he personally believes in, (Brooks has thought this through: although he lives in New York City, he is ready to move to a more remote and defensible location at a moment's notice). I know I would not give up my job with a meagre pay, nor my Internet despite a capped data, nor my credit card despite its ever piling debts, nor this aged life of mine that has gone through so many wars of its own despite the memories and scars I'd wish away at a moment's notice. It's just how my life is. It's the same for you who is reading this right now; there is no point in denying it. Because that's what "normal" is, what human nature is.
At the same time, it is scary to know that if something bigger than all these problems we have been living with suddenly manages to squeeze itself through the crevices, I would be fucked. Sure, I can abandon my apartment with a rather ridiculous rent, and my job that will take forever to reach a position I can truly be content with, but I have not yet the money to find a "more remote and defensible location" to go to at a moment's notice. I am too tired out with work every day, and sometimes, even life in general, to come up with a foolproof plan for whatever that might be coming my way. Whatever it is, I - we, are just stuck.
"You can blame the politicians, the businessmen, the generals, the "machine", but really, if you're looking to blame someone, blame me... I'm the American system, I'm the machine. It is my fault, and the fault of everyone of my generation... Yeah, we stopped the zombie menace, but we're the ones who let it become a menace in the first place."
It's our fault because we let it happen. We didn't let anything slide, how could we when the thing that we are letting happen is mere life itself? We are just being "normal", we are just living life.
It's just how it is.
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