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Love is all around...

Love is all around, insisted to linger around despite people pretended to foresee its existence, for it’s something abstract, indescribable and the most importantly…it couldn’t make money. Society nowadays have one common perception towards this issue, thus a matter-of-fact question like this was formed; “Will love alone satisfy your hunger?” A good rhetorical question I should say which with no absolute answer. My version of reply will always be “Love will feed your soul for you to satisfy your corporeal needs”

Without love, we are just a bunch of living corpses feasting on popular mores, practicing insignificant routines in life as if we are born to be enslaved to it. Love is what makes us human, more humane and distinguishes us from animals, albeit reluctantly saying, some of us has gradually become more beastly than animal itself.

Of course, do not get me wrong. I am definitely not a love saint. The word love in my thesaurus comprises the passion between man and woman, the affection between parents and child, the bond between siblings and relatives, the closeness of friendship and the warmness for bare strangers, even to the extent where you can spare some alms of kindness to your enemy. The word “love” I know is a rare gem saturated with kindness, sympathy, passion, empathy, affection, forgiveness, compassion and quality.

If only we allow ourselves a little room to give and accept this miracle little thing, if only we are not too blinded by wordly possessions thus forsake our compassion, if only we are willing to strip off our masks and look around us...one will eventually realize that love is all around, as it always does.

At this very moment, I wish to post another rhetorical question for you to ponder, “Does money buy you all these?”

Cruising around my research paper...

For the pass few weeks, i have gathered some information about Mitch Albom's books entitled "5 People You Meet in Heaven" and "For One More Day" and I finally set up my mind to work on these two books based on the thematical issues.

Maybe because of "Tuesdays with Morrie", an extraordinary soul and mind touching book written by Mitch, I realized that this talented author has his unique way to attract my interest, especially when he successfully make my heart wrenched, sore and buoyed alongside the storyline.

Despite the facts that some reviewers commented on his repeated thematic issues in the two books mentioned above, I am still unaffected by the comments as personally I felt that each of the books albeit discuss on the main themes still powerfully stir my emotions without fail. For me, the three books have their own aura in different perspective and the same themes were scrutinized under different techniques, methods and dimensions. I guess that is the main reason I choose to work on Mitch's works.

For better or worse, I'll have to check out my latest points with Dr. Noreen next week and hopefully she approve as soon as possible.

Searching For Story With Mahabrata's Theme

As usual, i will search for anything regarding to assignments through Google as I think it is a better search engine compared to Yahoo. Therefore, i started to skim through pages and pages of websites which provide stories with similar theme like the one in Mahabarata. Usually, not all of the websites provide the material that you are looking for, especially when some of it tend to lead you away from the main track. Hence, many hours of precious moment for sleeping are wasted in such websites. But, I am extremely lucky today as i know exactly where I should look for the story.

Usually, for themes such as filial piety and loyalty towards family and country, one can always browse through tales from China as Chinese in olden days are well-establish for their loyalty to both family and country. Therefore, you can easily find dozens and dozens of such tales without wasting your time browsing through irrelevant websites.

Finally, I found one story entitled "The Magic Brocade" by Aaron Shepard which talked about a filial young man who endured much difficulties for the sake of retrieving his mother's lost brocade.

The First Step Ain't Easy

The first step made by a toddler is always a challenge, and now i felt the same feeling rushing and filling up inside me. The anxiety level and millions of things that jammed up my brain are making it worse.

Before this, i talked about my desire to use the novel "Tuesdays With Morrie" by Mitch Albom as the main source for my thesis. Therefore, i have generated some issues to work on which have to do with two words; meaningful life and materialism. Morrie's last few months of living was spent on contributing to others his most precious time, hoping to bring an awakening in oneself about the actual meaningfulness found in life. His perspective in living life meaningfully will be considered as idleness or almost insanity for the world we lived in today but still when we take some moment and sit down to think it over, what he strongly hold onto is nothing but the truth.

People will always pursue for material things and reach out for their unfulfilled dreams. During the process, they tend to forget about the relationship between human being and the nature, and on top of all, they get oblivious of the existence of love.

To a certain extent, we couldn't help but to pursue for physical comfortness such as food, home, education and self-fulfillment but we as human being are obtuse to the word "enough". We simply couldn't stop ourselves from wanting more, and this is what Morrie tends to remind us about; frugality will be able to let you pursue richer experience in life itself

First Impression on Project Paper in EDU 3234

In today's lecture, the lecturer, Dr. Malachi Edwin Vethamani came into class and gave us a long briefing regarding to our oncoming tasks in this course. Basically, i am not very sure of what to do but i am definitely feeling the chills running through my spine, as if telling me that i have only 2 options to choose from; either surviving with a satisfactory result or die with shame by the end of this course.

Of course, i am always the first option person, and therefore i am still, like usual, giving my best throughout this course, hoping to gain borderless experience and achieving the grade which i deserve.

Although i am oblivious of what , how or where to get the inspiration for starting my position paper, still, i am now trying my best to surf the net, hoping to get some ideas and guidelines.

Nevertheless, i did generated an idea for the starting point in my research paper or position paper which has to do with the prescribed novel written by Mitch Albom; "Tuesdays with Morrie" which deals with the value of live. Maybe i'll make a research based on the writer's use of certain theme for the books he has written hitherto.