Did You Get the Memo?

The one about life...and how it can just hit you in the face one day like a jackhammer and you can hardly breathe because it's that overwhelming. The worst part is that you probably won't even see it coming. I mean of course some of us will say we totally saw it coming, but it's called the hindsight bias (look it up), you never see it coming.

Welcome to the game of life, where I always feel like I'm a late comer. The other players turn their heads and occasionally shout advice at me but they passed my spot eons ago. I did meet a player who actually slowed down to show me the ropes though, and it was a mutually beneficial experience. We traded perspectives: Veteran to novice, vice versa. He showed me a speedier route in grasping this game, while I showed him how fun it can be to play the game. Unfortunately we have hit a spot in the game where we had to take separate routes and now I have to get the hang of things by myself again. But I will always appreciate the crash course and hopefully he will always remember that the only way to play this game is to have fun with it.

Apparently this game is full of twists and turns, roads converge, diverge, reconverge, rediverge, you get the point. I may be late coming into the game, then I'll just take my time and have fun with it.

Obituary

Taken and adapted from a film that I never really enjoyed, well except for the obituary part of course.


A Friends fanatic and an eternal optimist, Michelle died last night from realizing that she did not, and probably would never, get the role in a movie that she desperately wanted to be a part of. Loud spoken, impatient, ill tempered, and perhaps irritatingly indecisive, she never thought she would want to play the part of a hopeless romantic. But then again, few of us do. Sadly the inevitable rejection, the one that she always knew she would get but had to give it a shot anyway, came in the form of a rude awakening. In this very much unwelcomed epiphany, she finally realized that her efforts had been in vain. Because no matter how much she wanted that role, how much she deserved that role, it was going to be given to someone who neither wanted it nor deserved it. Life is never fair, but it damn sure is ironic. Still, in the final days of her life, she surprised even herself. Even in certain defeat, she courageously clung to her optimistic side, surely there was a role out there destined for her. Ultimately she concluded that if people were to live in harmony with the universe, they must learn to accept and even come to appreciate what they are given. Most importantly, they must all possess a powerful faith, faith that we are all being lead by a greater force: what the ancients used to call fatum; what we currently refer to as destiny.