Trust, Faith, Endurance

Life, like everything and everyone else loves nothing more than throwing you curve balls. #1- You learn to swerve and duck and avoid this shit.

#2- You take everything with a pinch of salt and wait for the worst to pass.

#3- You learn that you don't have to go through this alone and are permitted to seek help.

If you picked #1, than you adapt fast and learn from past mistakes to avoid future mishaps. But it also makes you a fence sitter who mostly will be unwilling to get involved in situations that you would have to choose sides. Sounds like a pretty carefree life but it sometimes gets complicated as not taking a side will also get you into trouble and get shot in the cross-fire.

#2 is the optimistic choice. However, it gets a bit irritating in the long run as you just wait for a silver lining and be a push over to the hurdles thrown at you. A give and take agreement does accomplish a win-win situation though. So, 50-50? 

#3- probably the best advise people will give you. To be honest, no matter how strong you are, the emotions that you keep bottled up and gonna overflow sooner or later. If you've got trust issues well, let's face it. You trust blindly everyday whether you like it or not. Trusting a cab driver to deliver you safely, the people who handler your food and even down to the little things such as trusting that people know right from wrong and have a conscience. But like everything in life, one must know how to balance everything. It's OK to rely on others for support but not to the extent that you become reliant on them.

They say that trust is tough to build and easy to break, and that's where faith comes in. Faith you could say is blind trust. With these 2 things in the bag, all that's left is endurance to run the race and not give up even though you get all muddy and bloody and your legs feel they can support you no more.  

Childhood........... Tainted?!

The Disney Renaissance- a period in which many of us remember well as the days when princesses such as Belle, Aurora, Cinderella, Snow White and Jasmine filled every girl's imagination with the hopes of a happy ending, when we thought that our toys came to life at night thanks to Toy Story, when we believed that a lion, a meerkat and a warthog could co-exist without territorial dispute and to be honest, we all remember the lyrics from the song 

"When You Wish Upon A Star".

No doubt that these cartoons inspired kids to believe in their dreams and that good always triumphs over evil and all other positive values such as do not lie, don't let strangers into the house, the value of friendship and so on. However, watching it again now one cannot help but question every single detail that we missed as kids (in our innocent stage). 

1. Are the characters all high?   
In Bambi, its only natural that a new-born faun is curious and wants to know more about it's surroundings. But it does edge towards the retarded side when he can't catch on even after making the same mistakes several times over. Flower the skunk on the other hand passes himself of as a someone who got his meds mixed up with his blank expression (which is actually him being shy) and constant giggles at well, nothing. 

2. Racism? 
Noticed that in Aladdin the protagonist all have western accents and the antagonist speak with middle-eastern accents and have middle-eastern features? 

Tangled!

If I were to use an object to symbolise life, it would be a spider web. We've all heard the phrase "a web of lies" many times but in my opinion, "the web of life" is also an appropriate use of the metaphor. 

Like a spider weaving its web in the best chosen location. One that is strategically chosen so that it is protected and also assures that insects will get trapped in it to ensure the spider's survival. We as human beings also possess natural survival instincts although it may have been dulled through years of evolution and revolution of the world we live in. 

We build our lives on the grounds that we feel comfortable and put up invisible walls of defenses that provide us with a sense of security and personal space. We may not be able to choose the situations or positions that we are born into, but we weave our own paths and directions of our choosing with the belief that it would lead to a better future and also secure ourselves with the outcome we subconsciously hope for. 

Why a web you might ask? Why not building blocks or something more concrete? Simply because like a web, all things are connected in life. Though its strands might go round and round and connect themselves to different routes, all paths eventually lead to the center of the web and that center represents oneself. And like a spider's web that falls apart and breaks many times, we mend the broken corners and holes of life that are left by others or self made without fail regardless of how many times we have to repeat the process and with each mishap, we become stronger and wiser individuals by learning from our mistakes and not let hardships pull us down and keep us there.

In short, no matter where life leads us, we will always find a way back to the path we were meant to take and will always bounce back from the falls caused by curve balls that life throws at us. 

Sanctuary

Is there a place that you call sanctuary? Your secret escape that only a few or non know about? A place where you feel safe. For some this might be a place you call home, for others it might be an island that only mermaids go to. 

In this sanctuary what will there be? A comfortable bed which I can snuggle up in, a boom box to let me escape into a world of music. Why a boom box? Well, simply because a radio is too mainstream. 

Why do I need a sanctuary you ask. Because in this world of insecurities and hectic lifestyles, one does need one's own quiet little corner to chill and unwind. 

Looking out from my space I see the world just spinning by. Everyone playing their everyday roles. A father- breadwinner, husband, guardian, protector who's everyday's repetitive rituals has caused him to loose his youthful and energetic demeanor. What he does now is no longer driven by passion but by his responsibility and duty. On the surface the mailman is nothing more than a insignificant figure who delivers mail. But look closely and you'll be an individual who sees all and hears all. His insignificance in the community makes him invisible. You might stereotype him as a person with little to offer, but he might just be happier than you. 

Detaching myself from the world inside my own little corner, allows me to see the world in a different perspective. Think about it, imagine that you are a ghost and nobody knows about your presence. Like watching a basketball game with a bird's eye view. You can see every possible outcome of people's decisions, what might hit them from their blindside, who'd box them in and so on. 

But the one thing you realise after watching all this. That no matter what the outcome might be, may it be good or bad; life goes on.