"It's the beginning of the end..."

2009年1月5日星期一

It's surprising how one person's absence can make you feel lonely all of a sudden, and how another new person's intrusion into your life can bright up the rest of your days. While I was feeling a lil bit lonely at the end of my genetics law class, after sitting in a incomprehensible lecture on DNAs and chromosomes and all types of genetically mutated diseases with medical PHD classmates for two hours, a smile and a simple self-introduction from a public health medical student made my day happier. At least I made a new friend on this first day of the winter quarter.
Life is like a train...people can just hop on and off your train at random intervals. This just reminds me of a movie which I've watched on New Year's Eve in Boston - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a movie that's quite apt to catch at the turn of the new year. It's about how a white boy was raised by a black woman in an old folks home (or some kinda motel), and was born as a little old man and aged backwards slowly to a boy and eventually a baby. I couldn't figure out what's more to the movie besides the randomness of life, of people coming and exiting your life. The entire movie is explained by one line - Life is lived forward, but can only be understood backwards. But there's definitely much more to the movie which left me pondering on for many days thereafter - the helpless reality that time can never turn back, and how people we love simply leave us and never come back. Things only achieve their meaning to us when we look at them backwards, after we've lost or gone through them. Pretty sad isnt it?
There're two quotes which I especially like from that movie- cant rmb the exact words but it somewhat goes like this..
"sometimes people whose names you cant even remember leave the greatest impression on us"..
"we are meant to lose people we love, how else would we know how important they are to us?"

There're so many people we want to be with at this time but are unable to probably due to distance and our ever-busy lives. I'm just scared that I might lose them before I get to see them again. When I look backwards many friendly faces can flash past my mind, the faces who had made me laughed or teared. But where are these people? What are they doing now? It seems like they have already unboarded my train and gone on to their other journeys. And it's hard to catch up with them again.
What can we do but treasure what we have now...

也许
有些事有些人
我们只能望着过去的轨迹
发着呆
然后微微笑
接着紧紧闭上眼去回味
在我们忘记之前
因为
他们不会再出现。

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