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Crouching Misdemeanours

“The earth is at peace, there is no hunger, there is no violence, the environment is healed. Honesty, courtesy and kindness are practiced by all. Our world has never been more perfect. Only it is no longer our world, we have been invaded by an alien race. They occupy the bodies of almost all human beings on this planet. The few humans who have survived are on the run.”   These words are from a movie translation of a book called ‘The Host’ by Stephenie Meyer. It may seem like I tend to do more of movie review posts, but truth is I’m more inclined to watch a movie or read a book more than three times to find what the book/movie is about under altered atmospheres. And every time I do so, I feel as if different people read it. Concerning these words from this movie, you may begin to wonder and imagine this kind of, “the earth at peace, no hunger and violence.” Then you begin to weigh it against reality, our reality is that these things do not exist everywhere, the contr...

Reflections (Feed-backs & Feed-forwards)

 Feed-backs & Feed-forwards Do you ever think about how you got to where you are and where you are going? Or are you more worried about your past (what you did and what you didn’t do) and future (what you should be doing and what you shouldn’t do)? There’s a phrase that says, “ you are what you eat,” but I believe that we become what we feed, whether backward, forward or sometimes leave things down to do nothing or throw them up to see how far/higher they can get. The past is a result of what we do in a moment, today, which is determined by the tick of a clock. It may be 10:45:11 am but 10:45:09 am is in the past. History however, is a derivative of the past or it doesn’t only determine the past but the origins of an aspect or object by reference of the past. Now, have you pictured your life as a non-moving see-saw, the presence being the pivot and you controlled by a treadmill called the future, which controls your life and its extinction. Not a happy ending right? ...