on power... on regrets....
heyoz ppl.... exams r over!! n now's the "dunno wat to do nxt" time of my life yet again.... finally got some inspiration to write something after being able to find to time to watch a movie... haha.... so yeah... i'll do up an entry while i tink of wat to do with myself nxt...
anyway juz watched the show "schindler's list" juz now at home... n i rented the dvd for the show... no piracy involved! (surprised? haha.. :P) well anyway somehow i haf dis affinity for dis kinda sad gloomy shows... not dat i enjoy living in gloom... but instead.... it brings u baq to reality... it gives u small glimpses of the real brutalities or perversities of the world.... if i were to put it mroe pessimistically.. shows like these really do show us dat life n the world really isn't a bed of roses... even if it were... mind u roses do haf thorns n sleeping on a bed of roses wouldn't be the best of ideas (kekeke :P)... n somehow they haf gd soundtracks too.. hehe.. :P
for those who dunno wat the heck dis show is abt... to cut a 3 hr long story to a less than 5 mins short story.... itz abt dis guy oskar schindler who was a german businessman during world war 2 n at first he hired jews to work in his factory n earh big bucks but later on managed to "buy over" 1100 jews frm the concentration camps n "sheltered" them in his factory until the war ended.... thus saving the lives of these 1100 jews frm the holocaust during the war....
well.. there r a few points to bring out of dis show... but i guess i'll juz discuss abt one of them dat i've be munching on.... n dat is abt "power"... our general perception of power is control over others... bringing them out of wat they wanna do n forcing them to do wat u want them to... but schindler's idea of power is rather different... (rough) quote: "Killing people as a punishment for their crime is not power.... itz justice.... power is when u haf every justification n right to kill a person.... n u pardon him..."
i tink datz a veri interesting perception of power... n i believe datz my personal perception of power as well -- power comes frm self-control... find the ability to control the entirety of urself... ur mind.. ur body... ur impulsions.... n the ability to control other things ard u will naturally come.... like ppl... or the environment... or circumstances.... take dis case for example... in an argument: u'll haf a higher chance to control the opposition to tink along the same lines as u n keeping a level-head n an objective mindset while bringing across ur point... rather than to exchange a flurry of offensive, impulsive n often unfounded statements at each other.... dis is power over another person's mind....
if the opposition does not show any sign of being able to be convinced... the ability to control ur tongue while taking the verbal attacks frm ur opposition n resisting the urge to retaliate is a form of power.... power over the circumstances.... power to kill an argument b4 it escalates into something worse than an argument... the power to pardon....
since i haf not been writing for so long i guess i'll juz add in another point for ur reading "pleasure".. haha.. :P well anyway towards the end of the show... when germany lost the war n schindler had to go into hiding bcoz he waz frm the nazi party... schindler saw the jews dat he had saved b4 he left... n he waz filled with remorse as he said "i could haf saved more...." while estimating how many jews he could haf saved if he sold dis or dat n if he hadn't wasted most of his money on luxurious living...
the point i wanna make is.... dun live life with regrets.... coz pass mistakes can nv be changes n u'll live in the horror of dat mistake for the rest of ur life... even if it slowly moves to the baq of ur mind as time passes.... i know i haf some regrets in life.... especially with regards to my grandparents.... many wrongs i did... many things i did not do... if i juz quieten my mind n tink baq on those events i still do hurt in my heart... datz y i choose not to tink abt it most of the time.... but the fact is they're still there n they will resurface once in awhile to make u feel bad abt urself.....
so the bottomline is: do wat u wanna do as long as it is lawfully n morally upright... dun live to regret abt something u did not do when u could haf done it... coz life will be veri miserable when ur list of regrets stacks up....
anyway i guess i'll end here.. kinda tired coz i woke up damn early in the morning to exercise n ended up feeling veri horrible coz i haven't been exercising for a long time n dis morning's stint waz kinda like a shock to my body.. hehe... so yeah.. need some rest... so til the nxt entry... ciaoz... ^^
ps: sorry abt the "overly-realistic" entry... juz posting my thoughts.... pls do look forward to more uplifting entries in future... hehe.. :P
anyway juz watched the show "schindler's list" juz now at home... n i rented the dvd for the show... no piracy involved! (surprised? haha.. :P) well anyway somehow i haf dis affinity for dis kinda sad gloomy shows... not dat i enjoy living in gloom... but instead.... it brings u baq to reality... it gives u small glimpses of the real brutalities or perversities of the world.... if i were to put it mroe pessimistically.. shows like these really do show us dat life n the world really isn't a bed of roses... even if it were... mind u roses do haf thorns n sleeping on a bed of roses wouldn't be the best of ideas (kekeke :P)... n somehow they haf gd soundtracks too.. hehe.. :P
for those who dunno wat the heck dis show is abt... to cut a 3 hr long story to a less than 5 mins short story.... itz abt dis guy oskar schindler who was a german businessman during world war 2 n at first he hired jews to work in his factory n earh big bucks but later on managed to "buy over" 1100 jews frm the concentration camps n "sheltered" them in his factory until the war ended.... thus saving the lives of these 1100 jews frm the holocaust during the war....
well.. there r a few points to bring out of dis show... but i guess i'll juz discuss abt one of them dat i've be munching on.... n dat is abt "power"... our general perception of power is control over others... bringing them out of wat they wanna do n forcing them to do wat u want them to... but schindler's idea of power is rather different... (rough) quote: "Killing people as a punishment for their crime is not power.... itz justice.... power is when u haf every justification n right to kill a person.... n u pardon him..."
i tink datz a veri interesting perception of power... n i believe datz my personal perception of power as well -- power comes frm self-control... find the ability to control the entirety of urself... ur mind.. ur body... ur impulsions.... n the ability to control other things ard u will naturally come.... like ppl... or the environment... or circumstances.... take dis case for example... in an argument: u'll haf a higher chance to control the opposition to tink along the same lines as u n keeping a level-head n an objective mindset while bringing across ur point... rather than to exchange a flurry of offensive, impulsive n often unfounded statements at each other.... dis is power over another person's mind....
if the opposition does not show any sign of being able to be convinced... the ability to control ur tongue while taking the verbal attacks frm ur opposition n resisting the urge to retaliate is a form of power.... power over the circumstances.... power to kill an argument b4 it escalates into something worse than an argument... the power to pardon....
since i haf not been writing for so long i guess i'll juz add in another point for ur reading "pleasure".. haha.. :P well anyway towards the end of the show... when germany lost the war n schindler had to go into hiding bcoz he waz frm the nazi party... schindler saw the jews dat he had saved b4 he left... n he waz filled with remorse as he said "i could haf saved more...." while estimating how many jews he could haf saved if he sold dis or dat n if he hadn't wasted most of his money on luxurious living...
the point i wanna make is.... dun live life with regrets.... coz pass mistakes can nv be changes n u'll live in the horror of dat mistake for the rest of ur life... even if it slowly moves to the baq of ur mind as time passes.... i know i haf some regrets in life.... especially with regards to my grandparents.... many wrongs i did... many things i did not do... if i juz quieten my mind n tink baq on those events i still do hurt in my heart... datz y i choose not to tink abt it most of the time.... but the fact is they're still there n they will resurface once in awhile to make u feel bad abt urself.....
so the bottomline is: do wat u wanna do as long as it is lawfully n morally upright... dun live to regret abt something u did not do when u could haf done it... coz life will be veri miserable when ur list of regrets stacks up....
anyway i guess i'll end here.. kinda tired coz i woke up damn early in the morning to exercise n ended up feeling veri horrible coz i haven't been exercising for a long time n dis morning's stint waz kinda like a shock to my body.. hehe... so yeah.. need some rest... so til the nxt entry... ciaoz... ^^
ps: sorry abt the "overly-realistic" entry... juz posting my thoughts.... pls do look forward to more uplifting entries in future... hehe.. :P
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