Cryptic or not
How much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second that you’re carrying a backpack. I want you to pack it with all the stuff that you have in your life… you start with the little things. The shelves, the drawers, the knickknacks, then you start adding larger stuff. Clothes, tabletop appliances, lamps, your TV… the backpack should be getting pretty heavy now. You go bigger. Your couch, your car, your home… I want you to stuff it all into that backpack.
Now I want you to fill it with people. Start with casual acquaintances, friends of friends, folks around the office… and then you move into the people you trust with your most intimate secrets. Your brothers, your sisters, your children, your parents and finally your husband, your wife, your boyfriend, your girlfriend. You get them into that backpack, feel the weight of that bag. Make no mistake your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The slower we move the faster we die.
Make no mistake, moving is living. Some animals were meant to carry each other to live symbiotically over a lifetime. Star crossed lovers, monogamous swans. We are not swans. We are sharks.
- from the movie “Up in the Air”
Up in the Air
After I finished this movie, it got me on a thought. I am a man with contrasting personality. Yes, I did the Personality Plus before. Many times. Each time I got the result where scoring high on both personalities which are totally contrasting one and another – stable and unstable – water and fire – Sanguine and Melancholy. Yes, I tried it back in 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2010. I just happened to have high score on these two. I mean extra few points on Sanguine and the next time, it just shifted to Melancholic. Either I am having a dual personality or one of the is the inner self named Desire?
Personality Plus
As for the movie, it was a story of a man with nothing much, nothing less. In this movie, George Clooney stars as Ryan Bingham, a corporate assassin hired to retrench the employees. With some romance added in by Vera Farmiga, it sure helps the movie from going off down to the drain.
The introduction of the character Natalie Keener played by Anna Kendrick just reminds me of the ordeal I had to go through when I went back for the Qing Ming last week. A typical common perspective of life.
Ryan Bingham: Sell me marriage.
Yes. My aunt, sister-in-law and almost everyone is trying to do the above.
Depression sets in. The needs and the wanting to be. Then I watched the other movie – Bodyguards & Assassins. A Hong Kong movie about the China revolution about overthrowing the Qing Dynasty. With some big time cast – Donnie Yen, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Leon Lai, Wang Xueqi, Simon Yam, Hu Jun, Eric Tsang, Fan Bingbing and Nicholas Tse.
Bodyguards And Assassins
If you look at the death of these so-called bodyguards they are small in age. At the time of their death, they are still young. Maybe like my boss always said, heroes die first. They die early, they die young. Yet their blood shed were to contribute to something significant.
So what’s the point?
Why you want to carry a huge bagpack?
Buddha teaches us to break away from all these to achieve enlightenment and Nirvana. Yet can we do it? Or it has since then sway away from the actual teaching.
Holding
What is the point of having a huge back pack when you just have a small things to put in?
Just because the MLM, direct sales, insurance, motivational speakers and your bosses tell you to, it doesn’t mean you really have to. Just take those you care the most and grip it hard. Then again, when we are born to this world our hands eager to grab on something but as we writhing our palms slowly unfolds as we cannot carry it to our graves.
and this leaves me with blue or red pills? Just 5 pills!
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