Sunday, August 21, 2005 ;
11:16:00 PM
just came back not too long ago from bj's place for dinner.. and when i was sitting at the bus stop waiting for 54 to go home, i suddenly caught sight of the moon gazing down upon me from the sky. and it was beautiful. as i strained to look at it closely, i could almost see faint streaks of grey on the moon's surface, and strangely, this feeling of longing seized me - a desire to go right up there and touch the moon's surface, to see it upfront. and as i stared at it, this wisp of cloud slowly came and floated softly past the moon and the whole effect was so ephemeral that the cloud was gone as if it never came.. and i just sat there, marveling at the simple pleasures of the world. thank God for the gift of eyesight.
it also made me wonder if there is ever, really, life on other planets. somehow the ending of the show "Men in Black" has some impact on me; where the camera took this terrific panning out from our little world, drawing in the entire universe into the screen - the other planets, stars, sun and the milky way and all that.. and suddenly you see our universe as one huge ball where we can hardly be even defined as molecule-ic in size.. which eventually becomes a small blue and green marble in the next scene beside another similar looking marble.. that are both picked up by some strange, alien hand to be placed in a small pouch containing many other marbles resembling that which is our own universe. i wonder if you know what i'm talking about.. but oh well. and yeah. one could never know, really. i guess this is what reading 7 sci-fi books for a literature module does to you.
and on another wholly separate note, i found this quote lying around in a rusted metal miniature box and decided to note it down before disposing of it:
"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever."-- Francois Mauriac
just a thought: is there still much love lost within friendships these days, even? if not, what mark then is there?
every day is a new day ♥
