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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
The Day I discovered Amazon.com This day was very very strange. I found myself browsing through the items that were sold on Amazon.com website. I remembered my Lola telling me to look through some things on the internet that were on sale, then I email my Tita Che about them so that she could buy them for me. I went to Amazon.com, an online shopping site, and created a wish list which i name "All the things I want". There are about 15 items on that wish list already, if I'm not mistaken. Of course, I wouldn't dare to send the whole list to my Tita. I would just pick a few items and ask her to purchase them. I placed on highest priority the Universal Rider-Waite Tarot set. I really want to have my own Tarot deck, and be able to read the future with them. Most of the items on my wish list are books of Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung. If you can recall in my previous entry, I mentioned there that I wanted to know about my inner self and my purpose in life, and that I need to find out how to make the Key that would help me unlock these inner secrets and mysteries. I thought that maybe if I read books about the self and myths, I would be able to get some answers. Or if not, probably clues/hints that will lead me to the answers. Anyhow, I want to read books. Another interesting thing that happened to me today is that I read an email made by Ms. Kate which was addressed to her Humalit students. She seemed really really disappointed with her students. She mentioned in her email that most of her students did not take her class seriously, and even plagiarized in their term papers. Oh boy, are her students crazy? The books they were required to read are both very interesting. I am extremely surprised to find out that some of them even committed plagiarism. For God's sake, don't they have thoughts of their own? It just bewilders me much why some people take for granted the beauty that they may find in Literary creations. I mean, are they not amazed on how these things were made? Don't they see the connection of Literature in their lives? If they don't, man that's just disappointing. Maggie was right. Nowadays, only a few really see the beauty in myths-- because people are too blinded by things that make them not see the things that they are supposed to see. I guess Joseph Campbell was right in saying that most people are so engrossed with the problems of the world that they refuse to pay attention to more important things (like finding one's self and purpose, going through the inner journey of life). Just like most of the kids in my school. What do they do most of the time? Party, meet boys/girls, talk about boys/girls, worry about their assignments and exams, think about the problems of their friends, and all other stuff that are very unworthy of a person's time. I doubt that they ever reflect on the importance of their existence. What a tragedy. I'm not saying that I'm perfect. I'm not. But at least I try. I try to dwell on more important things that on senseless matters that will really have no bearing on me in the long run. I really hope that someday, people will realize that they were alive for a reason. I hope they would opt to find solutions for the problems occuring inside them, not around them. Because as Joseph Campbell had put it, when we grow old, and when all the problems of the world have been solved, we would then turn to our inner self. If we do not find it, if we do not know where it is, we would be lost forever, for it will be too late by then to go through a journey to find the inner self. In the end, we will just be regretful for ignoring the fact that there are more important things in life than what's on the surface. We failed to notice, we failed to care. What would be left of us? Pretty much nothing.
8/26/2008 10:20:00 PM
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