"Youth offers the promises of happiness but life offers the realities of grief."

~Tony Parsons~

What do you think?

Is life all about grief? Do we all constantly upset ourselves with the feeling of loss? And does youth really hold the key to happiness? How many times we've come across devastated youths with problems stemming from home, school, self and society itself? I believe that whatever we go through in society today, we go through it as youth, as adults and also as elders. Doesn't mean that problems are non-existential in youth. Perhaps when we are young, we have more capacity to dream and delude ourseleves to the perfection of life. Which isn't really so. Or maybe. Here's something i like from the show "Avalon" - "Some young people deal with their disillusionment by seeking out illusions of their own." Maybe that's what alot of us are doing today. Maybe our dreams are the only thing left for us to hold on to. Our perfected world that probably will never exist.

Just caught "The Village" with my parents. Uh huh. Another one of our family movie outings. Pretty hyped up huh? If anyone out there has time to spare, do try and catch it. It's pretty awesome that the trailer strucks us as a horror flick but it turned out to be surprisingly unusual. So i shalln't give out any spoilers. *smiles* Innocence is such a missing virtue these days. In fact, it's a virtue that's often moulded into a weakness. Ah...the sadness of life today.

Happy Birthday Singapore.

Feeling perked up.

she spoke at
5:12 PM