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Tuesday, 19 October 2010

Nothing Lasts


"Life will be so much happier if we grow younger each year!" I have heard this several times from either the same person or others. I wonder where did they get this thought. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button? The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a movie about a man who was born old, and the reason for his unusual birth is unknown. People thought that he will die very soon, but they are eventually proven wrong. Benjamin, the old baby, not only didn't he die early, but instead, he grows younger and younger each year.

While watching the movie, I caught the line which Caroline, Benjamin's girlfriend, said to him, "we will all end up with diapers anyway," after she asked him how is it like to be growing younger, which he did not respond. This made me ponder, perhaps to be growing older and to be growing younger does not make a lot of difference after all. It is like looking at a rope from the end to the head, and from the head to the end. The ends are still the ends. The rope is still a rope. Life is still life. We experience, we learn, we make mistakes, and we live through these mistakes. Then, in the end, no matter we are growing younger or growing older, our abilities decay. In either end, the youngest or the oldest, we will end up forgetting things that we have remembered, and losing things or even people that we have loved.

In the movie, as he keeps growing younger, Benjamin eventually forgets his wife, and as well as the life that he used to have. What can be worse than forgetting the person who you have loved so much, and who has always been loving you? What can be worse than forgetting the entire life that you have had, including all the best moments to be thankful for, and the worse moments to laugh about? So will life really be better if we all grow younger each year? I'd say no, and neither will it if we all just stays growing older. But this is how it should be. How life should be. Nothing lasts, and that's the beautiy of life. This is how we learn to cherish, how to regret, how to make and prevent mistakes, and finally, how to let go.


Reference:
http://exiledonline.com/page/7/?s=movie [The Exiled. THE EXILED–MANKIND'S ONLY ALTERNATIVE. 2010. All Rights Reserved. © ]


2 comments:

IRiS said...

Nothing lasts, I totally agree with that.
..........so that's why we should cherish our time more, including the time when we are young too. We shouldn't be buried too much by things from school.

eira said...

I couldn't agree more with your blog post. It is true that nothing lasts forever and sure we all do realize it. I think its really easy for people to say that they should cherish what they have more, but think about it. How many of those people actually do cherish their time and interactions with others more? So many of us take for granted what we had and only realize its real value when we lose it. By the time we've lost it... it's too late to have it back because.. nothing lasts forever.