Something about Love and Our Soul

I learnt something from the movie Wall-E this evening.
Well actually, the movie shed some truths about man-kind for me. But before I get into the abstracts of the different things that was brought up, I just want to share something closer to home.

Lesson 01: Our Soul is what gives us hope, faith and ability to Love

I realized that no amount of system, no amount of programming, no amount of procedures can replace human beings capability to feel. Our minds and strengths are inter-twined with our capability to hope, have faith and extend it to love, which allows us to be far more superior than machines.

we may live a life of routine, but in every single chore we carry out, there is an element of hope (if it turns out bad, it can be better), faith (i know i don't see it now, but i know i will see it later), and love (what definition does this characteristics need?)

I liked the part in Wall-E where robots are just robots with a set of instructions to follow. However, even when everything is 'fried' (just like human, when we're really-really sick), our ability to feel, to have hope and faith, is simply beyond any medical marvel (organ transplant, tissues regeneration, cure for cancer)...

Bottom-line, we may feel useless sometimes, in-competent, non-beneficial to the society, useless, of no benefit to people around, or burden... Put these negative characteristics aside, simply being human, is able to inspire, persevere, love, hope, believe.... Isn't it wonderful to be a human!


Lesson 02: Love is so strong, that even when Robots sees us, they get impacted!

One thing I realized from the show is that we as humans may invent things, give instructions, create machines, computers, robots as tools to help us do the chores that we've set them to do. But, we never program, tried programming, or make them to inspire, persevere, hope, have faith, love!

And the most amazing thing is, even while we did not configure them to do these or inhibit these qualities in them, by simply watching and observing, even a 'machine' understood and was able to identify, pick up, learn and apply into its artificial intelligence.

The best part, it comes without teaching nor instructing. One has to simply watch, and learn!

Bottom-line, if machines are able to watch and learn to love (or the lack of it), then what more our kids, our children, the little ones around us... They are watching your (my) every move in the way I exhibit these wonderful qualities...

Hope these 2 lessons I learnt today can be a blessing to you!

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Learning about 'how to measure life'

I watched the bucket list, well, the better end of it actually. I split the show up to 2 due to time constraint, and inputs into my mind, so that I can process it a little.

How do you want to measure life? Some say by faith, some, by love... For the author, its by people who are measured by him. I gave some thought to it, I guess mine will be measured by how God thinks of me.

Now is that faith? Is that obedience to His commandments (a.k.a. by law)? Or by a higher-standing, un-measurable and un-thinkable no matter the results...

The Egyptian heaven, as I learnt from the show, asks everyone who are about to enter 2 questions:
1) Have you had Joy in your life?
2) Have you made Joy in other peoples' lives?
My thought is: If life is all about my joy or other peoples' joy, we'll die 'an almost broken' man because all his life, joy will stand waiting in front of him, but he never got it only-till the moments he's about to die.

I realize one thing while writing these thoughts, some people may like to measure by what they see/feel or experience. Some others, with things un-seen and un-felt, simply because they do not have the opportunity to be what they want to be measured with.

For me, I know, I want to be measured not with the moments I have not lived, but by each moments I spent. I want to know that at each passing moment, I live like God's grace coats me under, brought me back up, and only with grace... I will live a life measured to my 100%, a life worth living!

Challenge is... can I maintain to live out this life the next 60 years...

Life's Greatest Moments

I was thinking through what will make up my life's greatest moments...
As I was typing through this entry thinking and recollecting all the events that happened today, I can't help but to realize how empty life can be some-times. Events may trigger joy/sadness from a single moment, allowing us to miss a day's worth of lessons in life.

A friend of mine told me that by the way I responded to a good offer, it seems to him that I may have been staying in Singapore for too long.

Maybe he's right (in a negative way), truly living in Singapore, with a life like mine, so often makes me miss these beautiful moments in my life... Perhaps not even miss, but disregard such beautiful moments altogether.

I had a short talk with my girlfriend just 30 minutes ago, and while we were ending our call, we repeatedly said "I Love You" almost 5 times to-and-fro in 3 minutes...

It now dawned upon me, how blessed I am, how blessed I have been...

Perhaps I now learnt, life's greatest moments, is not something to be searched for, nor it is something to be looked at. Realization, makes all the difference to the greatest moments in our lives.