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Love and Life

Life is unpredictable. Sometimes when you think you have it figured out, you are smacked in the face by something that came out of nowhere. Like the pain it inflicts, it also jolts your perspective of life. Suddenly a different outlook of life is made visible. What it did was, it just threw all else out of the priority list, replaced by a new prescribed importance. So is Love. A lot of time, it comes as it pleases. We are not the one who get to choose when and with whom we share it with.

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Love has been a mystery for millennia. From the first lovebirds of our great ancestors, Adam and Hawa (Eve), to the current times of you and me. We fall in love in mysterious ways. From love at first sight to emotional and even intellectual attraction, to growing in love over a distant time, souls somehow connect. Out of millions or billions of people, there are souls that connect and disconnects. From immediate attractions to those that grows on you. In contrast there those that have immediate disgust or repulse at another.

Love often feels like the emotional core of life – whether it’s romantic, platonic or even self-love. Love can come at you when you least expected it. The attraction that transcends reasoning. The longing and missing of ones lover. The timing of meeting the love of your life, can be sometimes unexpected. Love gives Life meaning, depth, and a lot of times chaos. Love can also be overwhelming, fragile and consuming. The highest of high and the lowest of low.

The Beautiful Sadness that Love brings.

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The Colonised Effect

With the death of the late Queen Elizabeth II, it sparked mixed reaction across the spectrum. Some mourn the loss of an enigmatic Queen, others happy at the end of the symbol of tyranny. To note, although the current monarch may not hold the ultimate power or say on the country’s politics as it once used to, the Queen has never apologised nor regretted the actions done under her name.

It is difficult to fathom, that the people whose land were colonised and stripped of its wealth, whose forefathers killed for wanting to be free in the land of their ancestors, then suddenly the generations of today, look up to the head of the coloniser with awe and mourn at their leader’s death. Are we truly free? Or these mindset, still longed to be ruled by a foreign entity? Or are they the benefactors of the colonisation of hundred of years, repaying with loyalty and showing gratitute?

This year marks the 65th Independence Day for Malaysia. Freedom for 65 years of self-rule from the last foreign coloniser. Many nations across the globe have similar stories and timelines. Independence wasn’t achieved by luck or handed back to us on a plate, but rather with tears, blood and even with the lives of our ancestors. Therefore, their struggle and sacrifices then, we as the free-generation needs to remember.But are we really fully independent?

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