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read between the lines
all sorts of stuff michael is killing me. that is by far the best franz ferdinand song i've ever heard. contrary to widespread belief, it is not a song about a gay man's verbal affections towards a hot guy, rather it was written after one of the band's friends got drunk and ended up dancing with a man (hahaha how funny that must've been). ignore the lyrics, let the music speak for itself (at full volume). if that's not got anyone pumped and moving, i don't know what will.on another hand this song's lovely (read: encouraging). and so true. in fact it came out of the blue into my head when i was in the pits the other day, like some message from above. i was reminded of it tonite when a friend sent me this quote: "He, who loses money, loses much; He, who loses a friend, loses much more; He, who loses faith, loses all." that's so true. if there's nothing to believe in, no faith in something to hold on to, then life loses its zest, its point of living. some people (those yet to be saved) put their faith in themselves, or their families/friends, or their businesses, etc. for me, my faith is in christ. but the thing is faith or believing in something is what keeps a person going, is what gives a patient a higher recovery rate, etc. (but if what that person believes in fails, then...no need to say lah.) If I Ever Lose My Faith In You (unplugged) by STING You could say I lost my faith in science and progress You could say I lost my belief in the holy church You could say I lost my sense of direction You could say all of this and worse, but If I ever lose my faith in you There'd be nothing left for me to do Some would say I was a lost man in a lost world You could say I lost my faith in the people on T.V. You could say I'd lost my belief in our politicians They all seemed like game show hosts to me If I ever lose my faith in you There'd be nothing left for me to do I could be lost inside their lies without a trace But every time I close my eyes, I see your face I never saw no miracle of science That didn't go from a blessing to a curse I never saw no military solution That didn't always end up as something worse, But let me say this first If I ever lose my faith in you If I ever lose my faith in you There'd be nothing left for me to do There'd be nothing left for me to do If I ever lose my faith If I ever lose my faith If I ever lose my faith If I ever lose my faith in you -- speaking of faith in things, particularly of faith in a higher power, chaos theory just cannot exist. i mean anyone who believes in chaos theory (and who really really thinks about it) is effectively saying that there is no reason or purpose for living, since everything just comes into being just by chance. and another thing i just don't get. these days, everytime a person gets afflicted with something which he himself has previously inflicted onto others, he says, "it's karma coming round to get me." but isn't that never more obvious a sign that there is a higher being dishing out the punishments and the rewards as a result of observing human behaviour from above? but then again the thing is, most teenagers just don't really think that deep. it's all fine with surface stuff like the latest fashion, movies, music, etc. but there are so few who really sit down and think, what is life? and then one day when they're bogged down with the pains of adulthood like a routine job and a life cycle of repeated histories year after year after year, then they finally make better use of their grey matter. unless of course, they're interrupted by one of us who, in a way sad, has to wake them up from their slumber and ask them if they've seriously thought about what happens after they die. it's interesting, some of the reactions i get. i have a friend who, despite knowing that it could never be the case, just wants to live in denial and keep believing that we'll all live on big fluffy white clouds after we die. but then again these questions never fully penetrate our veins until something serious and life-threatening/tragic/bad happens. and it's living proof that all the information in the world is not going to change a person without the Spirit. goodness. what have i gotten into? one minute i was talking about the song and the next i'm jumping into the big questions. maybe it's a side effect of late nights and stoning. i was supposed to be looking for a job online but tonight i gave up, just didn't feel like sorting through the lists again for now. can't even do that in the daytime now because my father has taken it upon himself to carry on the construction work we last abandoned and enshroud the whole house in dust (sand, broken bricks, etc.) and noise (drilling, drillling, drilling) in the afternoons. i can't even read a book or write, or whatever. which is just terrible because idleness is never good. and i can't be going out everyday or else i'd be broke. |
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