Perspective...

I went to the movies yesterday to catch Constantine. It's a highly recommended movie with spectacular special effects that cures vomiting. Well I put it that way because my friend was feeling queasy before the show started but he felt better after viewing the super fast action on the big screen. Maybe next time if someone feels like throwing up, recommend them a fast-paced game like Quake or throw them the movie Constantine. It just might work.

However, that is only one perspective that explains why my friend recovered from his dreadful disease. There are so many other factors, like the temperature of the theatre (it was moderately cold), the surrounding people (there was a nice looking lady seating beside him), his body natural defenses or maybe even too stunned by the special effects to vomit. With so many factors, it's really quite difficult to narrow down the source of the miracle.

Most people would not think deeper and ask themselves why something happened, mainly because they don't have to, they can't be bothered, or even if they do, it seems to them that no answer can be found. I second the belief that everything happens for a reason. Even so, for unexplainable events, luck and fate are the 2 words that will come to our minds.

My brother related to me this actual accident that happened to a Singaporean couple who went golfing. The wife hits her ball into the bushes, and so she left to search for her ball before her husband made his shot. When her husband made his shot, it landed on his wife, killing her instantly. A single golf ball no larger than a person's fist can find it’s way past the wind and prove to be a deadly trajectory. One finds it almost impossible to not link either luck or fate to this scenario.

To explain this event, it's just as simple as the man swinging his golf club in that specific angle and speed, which positioned the ball on his wife. His control of his golf club is the cause of his wife's death. It's not luck, it's not fate. It's just him swinging the club to hit the ball that landed on his wife.

We all understand that in this world of ours, there are many objects. Be it living or non-living things, they all interact with one another. Take a lamp on a ceiling for example. The screw that holds the lamp is rusting every second, and at some point in time, the screw will break and that lamp is going to fall to the ground. To many, it is by chance that the lamp will drop. However, through calculations, we are able to predict when the lamp will fall. It is never by chance. For us human beings, we have the power to make decisions, and act on them. We can choose to avoid walking underneath that lamp, since we do not know the exact time it will drop as predictions are never accurate to the split second. Choosing to walk underneath that lamp is the all familiar term called gambling and those who gamble are known to be brave souls. Bravery is good, but so is vigilance. My point here is not to tell people to not walk underneath lamps. It is just to tell people that most objects in this world have already determined the precise moment of interaction with other objects - when the lamp drops, when the comet hits the earth, so on and so forth. We are a variable in this world. We are all capable to make differences to pre-determined interactions. Hence, do not hesitate to make a difference in this world, but just keep a lookout for imminent dangers. You can do much more than what you think you ever can when you're alive and kicking.

I'll leave it to you readers to discover the potential of your mind when you probe deeper. Do note that thinking too much will accelerate your ageing process. Another thing to note is that greed, jealousy, etc. will cloud your ability to probe your mind. Therefore, stop trying to find out what is that winning lottery number.