Words

Just feelin' a lil random.. Like sometimes after reading something that actually makes much sense do I reflect about somethings.. And how much we owe to culture for creating communication media so that we understand each other better.

And how much, for the sake of 'the future', we forgo our roots, our roots, our culture, our heritage, our history, hoping for economic progress.

On paper, we have progressed as one world.

But how much have we progressed spiritually?

Not all things can be measured and recorded. We may be able to take pictures as evidence and proof of our treasured memories, but no matter what kind of golden chest we put them into, they can never become alive again.. Technology, through one magical device we call camera, allows us to take down memories of that split second... But as much as we'd like to relive it in the future, it is a nothing more than a mere (not merily as junkang pronounced, ha) replicate.

If only my voice reaches out somewhere, perhaps we will forever be living on borrowed past. Trying to encourage preservation of culture, but here we are allowing globalisation and homogenisation to devour our roots. There's so many examples by simply observing the things around us. If one doesn't think the way I am, I'd like to think he's probably numb all the things around him that he's grown, day by day, to succumb and become oblivion to them. We don't know who we are anymore.

We are, indeed, a lost generation.

I'd like to end of with quotes of words, because I do think words have evolved tremendously due to culture enrichment. We may embrace another language, but it is equally important to remember our own and accept them for who we are. As descendants of the original language users through so many generations, I think it's only right we preserve it.

"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in." -- Dennis Potter

"Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them." -- Samuel Butler

"A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket." -- Charles Peguy

"A wise man hears one word and understands two." -- Yiddish Proverb

"Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion." -- Anonymous

"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." -- Lord Byron

"Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality." -- Joseph Conrad

"We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves." -- John Locke

"Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us." -- David Riesman

"Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them." -- Adlai Stevenson"

"Words are plentiful; deeds are precious." -- Lech Walesa

"Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters." -- Dr Samuel Johnson

"We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted." -- H. R. Halderman