Saturday, February 25, 2012

Premonition



I have watched the movie Premonition once before. I can’t recall when but I believe it’s been quite a long time already.

And just like before, I haven’t understood the full details of the story. All I know is its plot, how it started and how it ended. But in the middle of the movie, I know how it went, but I didn’t focus on the details. I believe my mind processed only selected parts and I don’t know why.

Anyway, all I have to do is react, right? I got plenty of it.

Being an avid film viewer, I have watched a lot of movies that involved tragedies. Premonition may be associated with Final Destination, Deja Vu, and Flash Forward. In all of them, characters knew what will happen in the future.

For one thing, it’s not easy being in a position of someone being able to foresee the future. It is very difficult. How will you react to it? How will you keep it? And say for example you’ve decided to share it to people involved, how will you say it? It affects your emotional side greatly. Someone or people you love and care for are at risk.

As I have observed, when you tell others what you know, it tends to become the main reason for the event/accident to happen. And since they know that you knew it, they will think of you as a suspect. On the other hand, if you choose to keep quiet and keep it a secret, it bothers you inside resulting for your disturbing treatment of others which will lead them to keep on asking ‘What is wrong? What is bothering you? Did I do something wrong?’

As I watched the movie, going back to the future, then to reality, and then back to future is kind of messing up my head. What more to the main character right? Once you share your story with others, they will think that you are crazy. But I admire what she had done. Facing it with courage even though at first, of course, it made her wonder what was happening. The only thing that I see as a regret is that when her husband already had a change of heart from what he was doing, it still ended up as what she saw, her husband died.

As I have read a quote, it says “Drive carefully. Why die in perfect health?” It makes sense. But if it is really his time, there’s nothing we can do but to accept it. But, everybody knows that it’s a lot better for it to have happened UNFORESEEN.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

The Difference

I got up early one morning,
and rushed right into the day;
I had so much to accomplish
that I didn't have time to pray.

Problems just tumbled about me,
and heavier came each task.
"Why doesn't God help me?" I wondered.
He answered, "You didn't ask."

I wanted to see joy and beauty,
but the day toiled on, gray and bleak;
I wondered why God didn't show me,
He said, "But you didn't seek."

I tried to come into God's presence;
I used all my keys at the lock.
God gently and lovingly chided,
"My child, you didn't knock."

I woke up early this morning,
and paused before entering the day;
I had so much to accomplish
that I had to take time to pray.

(copied from the frame in front of our dining room)
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Jesus said, "So I say to you: Ask and it will be given
to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door
will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives;
he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened."

Luke 11:9-10
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God bless everyone.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

The White Eye: Part 2

Under the full moon
I tried to walk silently
Because under its bright light
I see black and white.

The path is still straight,
But it wasn't clear anymore.
There, I fear, are my nightmare when close to me.
I should say, there are a lot of them.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

The White Eye: Part 1

Under the full moon,
I tried to walk silently
Because under the bright light,
I see black and white.

The path is clear, straight ahead;
Look at the clock, what time is it?
So with all my strength, myself I help
I hear my constant deafening footsteps.