Keep well and happy...till I am back beside you ;)
Before this blog goes on leave tomorrow for a week, I would like to leave you with some extracts from 2 books I have been reading. I will elaborate more in a later blog. But for now, I leave these paragraphs from the books for you. I hope you mull it over....
Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins (pg. 1):
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.
The Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (pg. 17):
Welcome. And congratulations. I am delighted that you could make it. Getting here wasn't easy. I know. In fact, I suspect it was a little toughter than you realize.
To begin with, for you to be here now trillions of drifting atoms had somehow to assemble in an intricate and curiously obliging manner to create you. It's an arrangement so specialized and particular that i has never been tried before and will only exist this once. For the next many years (we hope) these tiny particles will uncomplainingly engage in all the billions of deft, co-operative efforts necessary to keep you intact and let you experience the supremely agreeable but generally under appreciated state known as existence.
So I take leave now. Hope to see you again. So dearies, keep well and happy, y'hear! :)
Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins (pg. 1):
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.
The Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (pg. 17):
Welcome. And congratulations. I am delighted that you could make it. Getting here wasn't easy. I know. In fact, I suspect it was a little toughter than you realize.
To begin with, for you to be here now trillions of drifting atoms had somehow to assemble in an intricate and curiously obliging manner to create you. It's an arrangement so specialized and particular that i has never been tried before and will only exist this once. For the next many years (we hope) these tiny particles will uncomplainingly engage in all the billions of deft, co-operative efforts necessary to keep you intact and let you experience the supremely agreeable but generally under appreciated state known as existence.
So I take leave now. Hope to see you again. So dearies, keep well and happy, y'hear! :)
posted by Hee Boon at 1:56 pm
3 Comments:
You please keep well too. Take care =)
Happy belated birthday Hee Boon. May all your cells - the good, the bad, the everything - be always so cheerful. May the good cells be jolly and created more good cells. May the bad cells be peaceful and move on to better existence. And may the everything be cheerful to keep you blogging.
Take care.
Oi! don't take leave too long. We all miss you and have you in our thoughts always (nah! thats a lie....most times is more like it;)
Take care FOO. Just me and the babies....haha not the ones on your bed ya.
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