i'm all about them, words.
Thursday, February 09, 2006
- 9:00 PM
because of you
results r out tmr. i guess everyone's just oh so nervous. im gonna be in such a dilemma if i do well. then again, wad if i dun do too well. oh well. i guess i'll just haf to reconsider my options after my results.
i love my class. i dun wanna leave my class. but so many ppl wanna take h1 lit. but i love lit. rahh!
i recently borrowed pbear's "dead poet's society". watched it twice in 5 days. lol. probably gonna watch it one more time before i return him the dvd. it's a darn good movie. it's probably the only movie that can make me tear. it is rilli a classic. here's the synopsis:
Academy Award winner Robin Williams delivers a brilliant performance in one of Hollywood's most compelling and thought-provoking motion pictures. Williams portrays passionate English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming... "Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm - changing their lives forever.
John Keating asks his student to read the first stanza from the poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time".
"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying."
He then asks: "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may", why does the poet use these words?
"Because we are food for worms, lads.
Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is, one day, gonna stop breathing, turn cold, and die."
He then tells his students to step over to the pictures of the past, of old boys of the school.
"They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts, full of hormones just like you. Invincible just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you. Their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see, gentlemen, those boys are now fertilizing daffodils."
i find the way he tells his students to seize the day, to make the most out of time, very inspiring. many of us live life without considering wad would happen if we were to die tmr. would there be sumthn we'd regret doing or not doing? would there be a missing link in our full circle?
i guess u gotta watch the movie to receive the full impact of the lessons conveyed through the movie. the movie has a sad but truly heartwarming ending though. this has gotta be my favourite movie, also maybe cos it's so literature-ish.
still in a dilemma. confused. rahh!
