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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Am I Human?

In the world I see today, I realized how the people in my generation tend to spend a lot of their time contemplating on the things they feel. Don't get me wrong here, I think this is perfectly natural and completely human, especially in these days. The only matter is that, sometimes we spend so much time worrying and concerning about our feelings which is triggered by our hopes; anxiety; and desire for life, but in the other hand we are just too afraid or do not know how to translate that into life. I think sometimes we are just to shit scared about what other people will think of who we really are. Therefore we became something we are not. While most of the times, we just don't really know how to express the things we really wanna say or do. There is this quote by a Sociologist named Peter Berger I like, which by the way I found it in a John Green speech (thanks, John!), the quote goes
  
“The difference between dogs and people is that dogs know how to be dogs.” -Peter Berger 

And speaking of quotations, there is this other quote I like relevant to the topic. It is by A.O. Scott, a journalist for The New York Times. This quote was said during a video review regarding to a certain movie I really adore, and have become on of my favorite movies all-time.

"It suggest that the reason we think so much, is that we feel so deeply." - A.O. Scott (on reviewing the 2004 masterpiece, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
But in the end, people will just tell me that, that's just life. People have feelings, and even though some denies that they're action aren't based on what they feel or think, I think I believe that some of that is true.
I guess all I'm trying to say is that, some people feel sorrow, some feel anguish; pain; dismal; grief; depressed; etc. While some experience happiness; warmth; joy; pleasure, in their life. I for one just wish that I could be alive and feel something. I guess, I have become comfortably numb.

"I

have become

comfortably numb."

Pink Floyd 

Buayasumur.

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