Friday, 28 June 2013

And our whole lives are flashing before our eyes

Reading the old posts from yesteryear just makes me feel so 1)annoyed that I sounded so immature in the past, 2)sad that time flew by so rapidly, 3)disappointed that I didn't treasure that moment in time, 4)glad that I had been through the roller coaster, 5)nostalgic, 6)miserable because I'm a total mess right now, especially due to my results and laziness

So I've just started reading Mitch Albom's "The Time Keeper", actually I started on it in Japan but didn't touch it until now.

You know that feeling you get when you read the first 25 pages of a book and you just know it's gonna be a beauty? I felt that.

Every single one of us can relate to it, it has so much wisdom.

“Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.” ― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

Time, that's our weakness. I have to stop wasting it.

“We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.” ― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

If it's possible to quote the entire book, I would.

I have to stop going down this path man, this path towards failure and the 99% possibility of being retained.

My blog titles will never make sense because they are lyrics to songs.

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