This post will be purely hypothetical; it doesn't involve me or anyone around me *end of disclaimer*
Imagine u have the ability to see into the future but(there's always but when things are too good to be true) u can't change it at all. Like it stated there, u can only see what will happen years to come. If u are to peek into the future and observe that at one point of ur life, let's say at the age of 40, things will get terrible; everything will crumble, u will lose ur job, ur boyfriend dumps u unceremoniously, ur family members passed away one after another, but u keep on staying alive for another 20 years before the Reaper reaps u.
So tell me, if that gonna happen exactly as u foresee, what will u do when u come to that point in ur life? Will u continue living and go through hell just for the sake of living or will u end ur life after 40 years of good and happy period? 20 years of complete suffering and there's no chance of redemption; what will u do?
For me, I used to uphold the sanctity of life as something that need to be protected at all cost and there will be no justification of ending one's own life but now, I think my view has changed a bit. Life is still something sacred to me but to keep living is no longer the goal. I will live as long as I have a reason to keep going. If I come across a hurdle, I will do my best to try to overcome it first until I exhausted all possibilities and if it still doesn't improve, then maybe....just maybe I will cease to exist.
I don't see suicide as a coward way out. It takes a lot of courage to end ur life just like it takes as much courage to face the harsh reality. We are not in their shoe to judge why they do it. For all we don't know, they might have given their very best but it's still not enough. We always say things will get better but what if it doesn't? What if, like I said hypothetically above, it gonna be 20 years of misery, will u still tread forward or will u not?
Honestly, maybe I will not.
Love,
me
This is really deep. Major part of me doesn't want to have a glimpse of my future life. Because life is full of unprecedented surprises as we wouldn't know what will happen in next seconds. Keeping it suspense and living through whatever it takes to be happy. At least pretend to be happy for a moment.
ReplyDeleteYeah, for me, I wont want to know the future as well but what if u do? what if u know it?
DeleteSometimes I would choose not to see the future because if I do I would definitely change what Im about to do. I would prefer to live day by day :)
ReplyDeletehahahaha because the present that matters eh
DeleteI still say suicide is being a coward. Life ain't meant to be exploited that way, because people are dying to be in the shoes of someone who will still stay alive. I believe everything happens for a reason, and even if you can see the future, things will change. That is a fact that will never change.
ReplyDeleteSo face the change that is coming to live he best.
ish cant u please play along with my hypothetical for awhile LOL what IF u can see the future and what IF u cant change it? will u live knowing there's no happiness?
DeleteWhy deny the absolute truth? Change will happen by the second lol.
DeleteIf I can see the future and I can't change it, I will still live lo. Because I know it will change. Lolololl
chehhh u are no fun LOLOL
Deleteits like saying whether we will go heaven or hell after we pass away. is there even heaven and hell? what is there after we die? we dont know, its just too scary to think of it i guess, so why think about it leh? Just live and make full use of what life has to offer lor! :) maybe by making people around you happy and in the end you will be too ! :) hahahahah....
ReplyDeletesuicide, i dont think its a coward act or what, if you disregard other people's feeling and also religion, suicide is just an action of ending your own life. its your own choice. whether its a good choice or not, only you yourself will know. people sometimes dont really think about it. but if you reach a point of wanting to commit suicide, i dont think that person did even thinking about it. even if they did, it wouldnt be a rational one.
sometimes it will take a few people to point things out, or a few experience for us to undergo and then only we will get to see the bigger picture :)
Whatever there is after death, it doesn't matter I suppose. hahaha happy eh. That warrants another post but wait till my mood is low again before I start writing again LOL
Deletewhat if it's a rational decision? what if he has evaluate everything?
:) im not commenting anymore on that matter :) haha...
Delete40 is your future but my past... Hahha
ReplyDeleteOk, interesting post and many "what ifs". Thing about trying to see future and seeing future is this - it shapes your behaviour, like it or not.
It may become a self-fulfiling prophecy in the end and you will use it to justify the "truth" of being able to see the future.
Point is, and realistically, we can't and never will. Use the future as a reference point for planning and organizing your life. Use your pass as reference point/s to harvest lessons learnt, avoid the same mistakes and most importantly, improve the quality of your present.
So much talk about pass and future. They exist as concepts. Most important, live well in the present purposely. And it can only be done when you apply the lessons learned from the past so that you can be purposeful today for your future.
Be here in the present. Live life, no dream life (past or future).
Be happy.
And my second comment is about suicide.
ReplyDeleteAgree on the sanctity of life, etc etc that many have shared in the comments. But as a person who had tried and thankfully not successful, I will not pass judgment on it. When you are at that point of dispair or hopelessness, no logic exists. Point is, suicide is a choice (like TULS said). Whether a person resorts to that for reasons that benefit himself or for reasons of considerations of others (such as not wanting to incur medical cost for family), the end result is the same. So, coward or not, it's a judgment that one can pass very fast especially when one assumed the reasons is of selfish nature.
Having said that, I must add this, I do not advocate suicide. With "experience" and in hindsight, it was not a responsible act.
Live well, be happy. Always remember, it is precisely becos there are downs in life that makes the good so orgasmic. When you are in the pits sufficiently to consider suicide, it also means life can only get better. No?
Cannot imagine a life with no ups and downs. Would have been so terribly boring. No?
:-)
And last but not least, I will add here in jest - this is an not so young person sharing, so I sounded damned bloody serious.
ReplyDeleteSo, on a lighter note, if I can see the future, I will see who's maturing well and good so I can start to woo that person! (People with ED will therefore be out)....
Lol!
Present eh. That's another interesting concept. What is present anyway? Does it even exist? There's past, things that already happened and there's future, things that going to happen but what is present? The moment we think of something, it will always fall into either past or future only. There is no present
ReplyDeleteOkay enough with the mind-blowing lolololol well u cant do taht cos u can only see ur future. Too bad XD hehe