hi i'm back again to this blog. in regards to the previous entry that i made, i have found something to write upon. thanks to ms xiaoqing's blog.
''How can you see what your life is worth or where your value lies? How do you measure the worth of a man? in wealth or strength or size? in how much he gained or how much he gave?'', Xiaoqing's blog. a quote from her blog when u enter her site. it is located on the top of her tagboard. i had a sudden urge to answer this question...
we live in this ever expanding universe, that is constantly changing. since its expanding it means its always getting bigger. since its always getting bigger and bigger and bigger...we, in relative, gets smaller and smaller, you get me rite? does that mean the value of human existence diminishes? does it mean we are getting worthless by the seconds? i believe that this question is not a question of the different worth between different man. we should look at it from a higher point of view, and measure our worth in the universe. and this worth is probably something that takes a longer time to erode to infinite zero then other worth.
everything we do everyday changes our environment and surroundings. even a mere observation, according to some greek philosopher whom i forgot his name, is changing the thing that is being observed. that is assuming he's correct. but the change will be so infinitely small and insignificant since our world is always expanding, that we can ignore this change that we unknowingly made. even if we change something, that change is going to be even more infinitely smaller then the already infinitely small previous change that we make. therefore this paragraph concludes that our existence cannot be measured by the things we do or have. cos our worth will diminish, things that we gained, lost, received, gave will all diminish, and there is no way we can change this fact.
so what exactly measures a person's worth?
i have to say it is men's beliefs. note that i use the plural form. one man cannot do anything. but his beliefs, can bring together other man with the same ideals. that's what happening now. PAP has a common goal to bring singapore to prosperity. made a change to a country to 3 million people living on this island. guomintang has the resolutino to ''free'' taiwan from china, if i'm not wrong haha. bin laden brought the whole of afghanistan to the ground, and crashed usa's seemingly secure environment. 2 planes from bin laden rocked the whole planet earth's security and brought a new age to terrorism. not in a good way though i can say that he has great worth on this planet.
its what running the world now. men's beliefs. is your beliefs strong enough to change other people's life? how worthy are you to uphold the beliefs that you have always talked about? balian had thousands killed during the war with saladin to protect jerusalem becos he wanted to uphold the beliefs of a knight. and he could've been king and avoided war with saladin. can you do that? Now, how'll you uphold your beliefs and make your existence in this universe substantial?