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to err, is human
posted November 19, 2009 9:58 pm
Sometimes, I need to remind myself that I am only human.
Nando Parrado, the ultimate survivor who led 10 other victims of the plane crash in the Andes to survival, in his session at YES2009, left us with one stark message: Live every second of your life. Chase your dreams. Fall in love. Have fun. Make mistakes.
Make mistakes.
I forget that I have the rights to that. And in the process, I forget that others have the same right, too.
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Despite how awesome I feel life has turned to be lately, there are still some things about myself which I do not like.
For one, I am irked at how forgetful I’ve become as of late. Little things which I used to remember so well. Like IC numbers – I used to be able to remember them at one glance. Mobile numbers. Addresses.
I’m still okay with URLs and emails, so sometimes I forgive myself.
When my memory fade, the colours run out in my head. See, I’m a strange person. I remember words by the way they are spelled (while my mother remembers them by the way they’re pronounced), and I remember the arrangement of the letters by colours. Each letter is represented by a color – each word by a combination of many colors. Joanne is orange, black, red, pink and beige. Suit Lin is green white and silver. Jouvarn is black, green, grey and red. Things like that. Downside to that is if you throw me a real long word, I might take some time to digest & lock in – but when I do, I ultimately remember it forever.
I remember numbers the same way too – but not lately. My memory is slowly failing me at age 23. It’s unsettling.
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I fall ill too often. I get ulcers every 2 weeks.
Damn braces. You’d better make me pretty by May 2010 when I remove you.
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I absolutely despise how quickly I fall in and out of love.
I’ve had 2 serious relationships in my past. The first one started about 2 months after we met (I think).
The second one took exactly 1 month and 3 days later before the relationship happened.
On the matter of falling out of love, here’s the scoop: I never took any longer than 2 weeks to get over any of the abovementioned.
Maybe Aron’s right. Maybe I have never really been in love.
I find that rather disturbing.
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Sometimes, I’d like to disappear in thin air and hide myself behind the floating particles in your atmosphere, and never come back.
Yes, I have those moments too. Especially when all the phones are ringing at the same time, or when all the voices I hear at the same time are those demanding something out of me. Something. Anything. Everything.
Run into some deep, dark corner and never come back out again. Grow & spread wings and take off to the obscurest of places on the planet by myself. Bury myself in the blankets and never surface again.
But I can’t. And I won’t.
And I absolutely loathe that about myself.
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Okay I’m done being dramatic.
Back to being awesome!
..or so i think.
Posted in , confessions, life
by muhammad-hafiz
25th November 2009 10:03 am
Fernando Parrado advices, I still remember until now, and sometimes when I make mistakes too, I keep saying the advices to them
For me, although you sometimes forgot this and that, but for me, you’re still stable and balance =)
Fall ill too often due to braces you use? I think you maybe 2X prettier if you remove it, although you still pretty when you use it too =D
And one more, you’re absolutely can’t hide anywhere you want to, because for me, you’re a good friend of me and also the others =)
Hope can see you back on May 2010
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by Carmelo Polzer
17th March 2011 5:44 am
grievous register you’ve annex