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It's a rainy day
May. 10th, 2003 10:22 amIt finally rained! After days of scorching heat and killing humidity we have rain! Hurrah!
I love it, waking-up to cooling air and the scent of fresh rain on the earth. But what I love most are the hours after the rain, I feel relaxed and free and creative.
After walking through Makati, job hunting, under the scorching heat, this change is definetly welcome, and I hope that this will go on for days.
Currently reading Coraline, borrowed from Marie, *waves* Thanks, Marie!:) And also listening to the audio excerpt of Coraline (Yes, I'm a Neil Gaiman fool!:))
Mysterious doors, creepy shadows, and creatures with big black button eyes. It's supposed to be a story for children but adults lap it up too, because fairy tales aren't just for children, especially when Gaiman is writing. Images cling to your mind, and it stays even after your eyes are closed.
( for excerpt: )
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Creepy? Very. But, it's not all about the creep factor, it's about courage in the face of fear and about a little girl called Coraline, a precocious girl who fancies herself an explorer, she wishes for adventures and gets it, only to realize how much better her ordinary life is.
And isn't that how all epics start or how heroes are created? They wish for something more, then gets their wish fulfilled, but it isn't quite like they expect and they really don't like it. They manage to finish their mission/quest, of course but not before learning something about themselves, and in the end that's the important thing after all. Not the adventure, not the quest, its the journey and the things they learn about themselves, about what they are capable of, and their limitations.
That's Coraline in a nutshell, so is Lord of the Rings, so is Dune and all other stories you read.
Stories are important, it's more than entertainment it's education. It's learning about yourself, it's the funnel where dreams are built, it's that mystical place where you find your courage. People thrive with stories, they may not know it but they do. They hear it in songs, or in less noble mediums, in gossips in the television, in the movies. It's everywhere.
*sigh* I'm not expressing it properly, but imagine a life without stories, without art, without music and you get complete silence. And the only place that is that silent is in death.
Stories tell you your alive, it tells you how to live, and on occassion, tells you who you are.
So, okay, you can go tell me I'm crazy now.
Ooh, and a friend's mom is leaving for the states today, *waves* Bon Voyage! Take care!:)
I love it, waking-up to cooling air and the scent of fresh rain on the earth. But what I love most are the hours after the rain, I feel relaxed and free and creative.
After walking through Makati, job hunting, under the scorching heat, this change is definetly welcome, and I hope that this will go on for days.
Currently reading Coraline, borrowed from Marie, *waves* Thanks, Marie!:) And also listening to the audio excerpt of Coraline (Yes, I'm a Neil Gaiman fool!:))
Mysterious doors, creepy shadows, and creatures with big black button eyes. It's supposed to be a story for children but adults lap it up too, because fairy tales aren't just for children, especially when Gaiman is writing. Images cling to your mind, and it stays even after your eyes are closed.
( for excerpt: )
---
Creepy? Very. But, it's not all about the creep factor, it's about courage in the face of fear and about a little girl called Coraline, a precocious girl who fancies herself an explorer, she wishes for adventures and gets it, only to realize how much better her ordinary life is.
And isn't that how all epics start or how heroes are created? They wish for something more, then gets their wish fulfilled, but it isn't quite like they expect and they really don't like it. They manage to finish their mission/quest, of course but not before learning something about themselves, and in the end that's the important thing after all. Not the adventure, not the quest, its the journey and the things they learn about themselves, about what they are capable of, and their limitations.
That's Coraline in a nutshell, so is Lord of the Rings, so is Dune and all other stories you read.
Stories are important, it's more than entertainment it's education. It's learning about yourself, it's the funnel where dreams are built, it's that mystical place where you find your courage. People thrive with stories, they may not know it but they do. They hear it in songs, or in less noble mediums, in gossips in the television, in the movies. It's everywhere.
*sigh* I'm not expressing it properly, but imagine a life without stories, without art, without music and you get complete silence. And the only place that is that silent is in death.
Stories tell you your alive, it tells you how to live, and on occassion, tells you who you are.
So, okay, you can go tell me I'm crazy now.
Ooh, and a friend's mom is leaving for the states today, *waves* Bon Voyage! Take care!:)
