So....today the 3rd place winner of the third season of 星光大道 [Taiwan's version of American idol] committed suicide. Got a facebook message about it from the facebook group. I was so shocked when I saw the title of that facebook message. She had so much potential, which such a great voice and body she was on her way to stardom. I even saw her on tv a week ago. But she chose to end her life...because of relationship issues. It's so hard to believe...reading the news articles make me want to cry. She had everything...a loving and supporting family [her dad would go to her competition every week], an awesome career [following her dream and was about to release an album]...the only thing she was missing was love. And that is what killed her. She was having relationship issues with her boyfriend and the pressure of that made her take her own life. What a scary thought.
Love can make a person feel alive again. But it can also kill someone.
So I somewhat cleaned up my desktop today. I can actually see all of leehom now. xP It's kind of weird and I'm definitely not used to it. Seeing it actually gives me a kind of empty feeling. I guess I like "messiness". Not really mess messiness cuz I actually can't stand that in common areas. But I guess messiness in the sense that it makes you seem busy. Like I hate empty organizers...I am always finding ways to fill up my organizer so it looks like I've been busy. Guess it's the same with my desktop.
So I passed by a bookstore and decided to buy some English books to read since I re-started my reading habit during the summer and figured I should continue.
So anyways... I bought The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Good book. Surprisingly fast read [it usually takes me longer to read life lesson books since I can't skim and actually have to read every word]. I think I like Tuesdays with Morrie better but still a good read. And now some quotes:
"Fairness does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young."
"Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."
"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else."
"Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves."
"...no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed of it."
"Love, like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. but sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive."
"Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it."
Why California? Why? What gives you the right to prevent other people from marrying each other? Wtf. I'm disappointed. Very disappointed. And ashamed to be from California. At least I'm not there right now. But I'm happy my two counties (Santa Clara and Alameda) voted no. At least they know what the right thing to do is.
Oh right, and congrats Obama.
==== Quote from a person who supported prop 8. "People should do what they want to do, but it shouldn't be forced on others,"
I'm sorry...what? Do you see the contradiction in your own statement? People should do what they want to do so that means gay people should marry because they want to get married. But it shouldn't be forced on others? By passing prop 8 you are not forcing them to get married. In fact..you are forcing them NOT to get married. So how is that letting them do what they want to do? How does allowing other people to get married force you to do anything besides force you to accept it? HM?
