Lesson learnt 1:
When your bike squeaks and creaks while travelling through the suburban neighbourhoods in the middle of the night, you may feel like a hindrance to the world, but on the highway filled with cars, you'll find solace in your plight for the sounds of the highway embraces your weakness and encourage you to strive on.
Lesson learnt 2:
People start off as a debt and a liability. When you go prematurely, what happens? Negative scars will override your positive impacts. In cases like the late Nelson Mandela, he was remembered for not his stains but his colours on the world.
We need not be like him, achieving recognition on a global scale. Just work on your surroundings.
Lesson Learnt 3:
Contentedness is one of the hardest virtues in which a human can learn so as to achieve happiness.
Lesson Learnt 4:
Death is at the end of all journey. Yet the fear is not death is itself, but more towards the sudden nature of death which always seem to prematurely end one's dreams. But to live a life that fears sudden death, then it is not living but merely a calender that dates itself day by day, second by second.
A person walking on a straight line can choose where he wants to look:
To look a few metres ahead, he would probably see where the holes on the floor are.
To look kilometers away, all he would see would be faint linings and perhaps infinity, which is unpredictable and unimaginable.
To look at only at his sides, he would be able to spot the oncoming cars, but not the man heading directly towards him.
To look backwards, he'll only see the prints of his shoes, a mere and consistent reminder that he is stuck in the past.
To look up in the skies, he'll be able to dream of the wonders and mysteries the world hold, but never able to touch the them.
To look at his feet, he'll realize how heavy his foot steps are and how dirty his shoes are but never to realize that he had left behind foot prints behind him which brought a change and an impact on the very earth he walked on.
To look in all directions, he'll end up feeling insecure, for the dangers, the mysteries, the wonders, the infinity, the past and his progress will overwhelm him. Fear overwhelming him, he'll close his eyes and stop.
As the person stands perfectly still, eyes closed and mind racing, his heart continues to beat. As progress halts, the world still continue its cycle.
Thoughts began to race through him even faster.
What would his next move be?
Death by walking towards the traffic?
Retrace his foot steps and return to where was safe?
To move forward with a different goal and perspective towards his journey?
Or stop completely, shutting himself and roosting down while the world struts on.
Choices. You move your legs and you bring yourself there. Yet no matter how hard you run, how hard you look out for the incoming traffic, no matter what, death is always coming for you.
Decades, years, months, weeks, days and seconds. It's counting down and the timer may change at any moment. To walk forth, you'll be exposed to more forms of dangers yet your journey will never stop becoming more and more interesting. To stand still, waiting in your own little world, you'll eventually run out of food and you either have to go out to hunt for your own resources or die a deprived soul.
And eventually, when you die, the flowers shall bloom and wither just the same. The wind will blow and howl in the night. Tears will flow and pain will flood the living. Yet at the end of each journey bring forth a new start, a push, a pause and an end.
Perhaps this is one of the most interesting thing I've learnt... Now I need to figure out where to look, plan my next move and strut onward. I'm a survivor, I shall not falter. That I will believe.
