An Ordinary Account
Thursday, January 28, 2010
♥ Thursday, January 28, 2010
On my right lies a name card. Above the person's name is a huge maroon title, "Sichuan Chinese Medicine Centre". Above that are other chinese writings that I shall not bore you further with. And I must say I was quite tempted to throw that away, if not for certain facts that this ordinary card is attached to.
Ordinary. There is something wrong about this word isnt it? This word is an arrogant belligerent that conquers by way of assumption. Something that is ordinary is assumed to be uninteresting. Something ordinary can be assumed to be meaningless. Anything described as ordinary, loses its value almost instantaneously. This ordinary name card, big enough to be observed and small enough to be inconspicuous, is attached to just a little more.
The name card points towards a location. The location is connected with a series of events. Those series of events, involve certain persons that have contributed to my current emotional state of mind. The ordinary name card has the potential to bring together, instantaneously, past and present. That is why I am not throwing it away.
It brings to the present a very interesting message. And I quote from Robin Williams' Character in Good Will Hunting, "you will never know what true loss is, because that only happens when you love something more than you love yourself." Nope, I have not experienced the full extent of the truth in that statement, but close.
And come this wednesday, a close Marist friend makes his departure. Come the following Monday, another friend leaves for New Zealand. These persons are part of what is commonly described as an ordinary friendship. But no friendship in my life has been ordinary. And I seem to have made it my life's mission to have those persons know that- maybe its ineffective, maybe its wrong- but its me.
I realized that I have not been so personal in this blog, for a long, long time. See what an ordinary name card can do.
