I cannot oversleep!

I had wanted to blog yesterday when I was highly inspired. Cannot remember what I had wanted to say but I think it has to do education! Why this topic? I don exactly remember but it probably got to do with the fact that I have more than a basic degree and a comment by a friend of what's wrong with having something more than a degree. Education is not a tool to tell people you are more superior than them because u know more. Education is a tool for people to get beyond the environment (meaning the environment beyond the skin that wraps our flesh and organs) that they are in. It is something we all need to become more human and to empathise with others. Then even if we are educated, it does not make us more superior human beings cos knowledge can make someone arrogant! I guess when I got myself educated, it is not to show my superior studying power but rather I want to know my world and I want to know why things are happening around me. I want to know why there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and why the gods are quarreling when there is lightning and thunder on a rainy night. I want to play a part in maintaining the ecosystem on this world in which we live. Though the earth may not be the only living planet in the entire universe, it is probably where we will be for many years to come.

Today I overslept and I slept in the afternoon and as a result, I got a terrible headache which is not so bad now. I think I really have to find something to do on weekend.

A black and white photo that was taken from a canon camera which I only realise has this function a couple of days ago.

Same canon camera but in its original colour.

The sky in black and white. The sky is the limit and probably that means no limit!

Hmm.. last friday, we had the first reading club at SYC organised by FD! The first book to start off this session was Lords of the Rings! Remember the famous quote of "One ring rules them all"? Power in the wrong hand will lead to suffering. It takes a strong individual both in spirit and inner strength to resist power and to use it wisely. It is rare to find such individual.

To quote:

"A person who cannot genuinely empathize with others can never excel as a leader. So much of what ails society today is the result of too many people in leadership positions who do not or cannot identify with the plight of their fellow men and women. It is in enduring pain and struggles that the earth of our humanity is cultivated. And it is from this earth that a capacity to be genuinely concerned for the welfare of others blossoms."

- Words of Wisdom by Daisaku Ikeda

Guess our life span is limited so if we are always limiting ourselves because the norm says so then we are really wasting our lives! I should not live to regret because I have no time for that! This is also wat my friend told me. This is the moment! To quote from the lyric of a song from RENT, there is "No day but today". Incidentally, RENT is also a very inspiring muscial about life of the common people who are constantly confronted with their own identity and basic survival.

There is "No day but today"!