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omg, what's with ^??? what i meant to write was "my current emotion after realising how the elaborate post I typed yesterday evening was not auto-saved through my phone". It prolly is some cheem IT thing that I ended up activating cause I have no idea how to use my <, >, - etc.
Alright, so around 5pm yesterday evening, I was on a bus to Yishun and I suddenly felt like sharing some of my random thoughts again since there wasn't much to do on the bus. I can't replicate completely what I typed out, but I'm going to try my best.
It all started out from thinking about the wasabi in the sushi that I was going to eat or had for dinner. Most Japanese have a long lifespan probably due to their diet and lifestyle. I have heard of how some Japanese are capable of living to an age of 100years old!
Deep down in my heart, I really admire people who live a good old number of years on Earth. I don't think it is as easy as it seems to survive and maintain a healthy body and mindset when we grow old.
In the many years that elderly people have spent on earth, they must have witnessed countless deaths. The deceased can be their relatives, family, close friends or even neighbours! I feel that these elderly people must have either a crazy mental power to stay strong or too used to losing loved ones that they have become numb. Do they feel lonely? Some of them might still have children and grandchildren to support them but what about those who don't? This is also why many a times, we end up seeing news of elderly dying alone in their small apartments or even some of them having to end up on the streets cause they are too poor to afford a home. But, this is not the point. I feel that when every person we cherish dearly passes away, it causes a large amount of damage to our mental and emotional stability. This great deal of stress to our minds and hearts take aload of time to be dispelled and the time may depend on how close we were to the deceased. The people who live for a long period of time naturally witness more deaths than others and they are amazing people, in my opinion, who can withstand the continual turmoil throughout life when people around them enter eternal sleep one after another.
In addition, as a human being living on this Earth, we have to learn to accept and adapt to everything around us regardless of the nature. Along the way, we would have already been exposed to several incidents which have made us stop to think something along the line of "wow, life is so beautiful" but life is also capable of throwing at us the ugly side of humanity hidden as obstacles we have to overcome. Growing old means being able to see both the good and the bad scenes because we simply cannot choose. When the environment around you becomes so pessimistic, it is natural to want to escape from it. For example, a person who has lived through World War II would probably have experienced being tortured, seeing for himself how other comrades were killed and the seemingly endless days of such miserable life. All around you many innocent lives were lost, so much violence and bloodshed would have frightened and traumatised a person so greatly. However, the elderly who live on till old age are still holding on and they are definitely vastly different in terms of mental strength from those who hastily commit suicide. This makes me feel even more inspired by these elderly people.
I also feel that being an elderly is great because you get to observe how science and technology advance throughout your life. You would get to laugh at how probably 70 years ago people of your time were struggling with communicating with people from overseas and at the same time, reminisce about the technology you used in the past which youngsters these days would not appreciate.
This is really how I feel when in my time, we used to play with gameboys and now children in this age are playing with iPads and they have no idea gameboys existed. I watched this Youtube video about the reactions of kids to gameboy and I was like "HEY, that's from my time and it was really fun!"
Maybe as an elderly you would exclaim happily "Yeah! They have finally created ___ after so many bloody years!"
I wonder if I could be like them. Will I be optimistic and strong enough to live to a super old age? Will I get the chance to proudly tell my grandchildren / great grandchildren / young kids in the future about the experiences I've had when I was younger (like now) ?
I wonder what fate has in store for me.
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Anyway, dinner was good though I really thought we were going to eat loads of sushi.. :)
I'm craving for sushi all of a sudden... again.
I'M HUNGRY! :O
Will I ever be strong enough?
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