Life's Brief Candle

Life's Brief Candle

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow,
a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more:
it is a tale
Told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing


this peom, by the sohai-famous-chin poet William Shakespeare, has showed very clearly and precisely our life...
our life, is no doubt, like a candle....
life is short...
it can also go out anytime when affected by external or internal factors..
the flame of the candle, representing LIFE, can be wiped out by anyting, anytime..
so does our LIFE...
an accident, disease, or whatever factors, can end our lives..

so, precious our lives..
dont let it go to waste..

i admire those Japanese warriors of the past who hold strongly to the BUSHIDO concept (the way of the warrior)..
whenever they are facing death, they rather die in their own hands than having been killed by the enemies..
they die with honour..
i was actually touched by this kind of concept when i first viewed it through a movie (although i had read about it b4) by Tom Cruise, THE LAST SAMURAI (a 2003 film)..
a nice movie though =D
highly recommended..

back to the poem,
all of us living in this world memang are actors..
jz tink about it..
everyting we did..
we r jz performing in front of ppl..
we performed differently depending on who our 'audience' are..

and when we die,
nothing is left behind...
we will slowly fade from this world..
jz like MJ la...
u don see a lot of his fans now cry tillllllllll 'die go live come'..
sure arrr, most of them edi go dnoe whr enjoy lo, clubbing lo, K lo, bla bla bla~

haishh...
bt still most sohai de is...
our Malaysian government use this poem in the FORM 1 LITERATURE?
u tink those small innocent new-born-babeh can absorb such stuff?


b4 ending this post, do enjoy the trailer of THE LAST SAMURAI from youtube =D



another trailer =D

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