1 December 2010, 10pm, Kovalam Beach in Kerala
Lazing on the bed; stalling a little more time for some digestion work to be done in my stomach after munching a sandwich and fruit platter. Located on the beach, I can hear the sea waves from my room… just like those recorded sea waves we can find in the music stores. The TV was screening iRobot, it’s probably the 5th time I’ve watched it. For which ever reason, it is a good show… and of course for Will Smith! If you’ve watched it, do have a thinker about the messages in their conversations.
In the show, Spooner had a strong dislike for robots, all because they were too logical. That caused the death of a 12 year-old girl. And that ticked me a little that 95% of us are living like robots. We’re being programmed, that we often trained to follow instructions from the 5% of the population. We’re given a “life manual” and tries to follow the instruction as closely as possible--- satisfied and comfortable, a false believe that’s life all about; no desire to question.
Why should I do what others are doing? Has this question ever pop out in the head for all these years of slogging and complaints? This is what happened when we behave like a robot. Robot has a mind, no heart. Robot is highly logical, no emotion. That’s pretty much are happening to most people. Too logical, too afraid to do crazy things, too much fear to move into changes--- missing a big chunk in life.
Our mind is just like fire. A good servant, but a real bad master; fire disasters happened and we get burnt if we don’t know how to used them. Just like the mind; our life will turn disastrous when we burnt our heart if we don’t how to make the mind work for us.
Life’s not too difficult if we want it not to be. All we need is to stay still for a while, close the eyes and listen to ourselves, and with a pinch of the logical mind--- that will do.
The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live
~Norman Cousins
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