Thursday, December 14, 2006
Fate.
This is fated.
We are fated.
By the hands of fate.
Is there such a thing?
IF there is such a thing as fate, and whichever religion you are from, it means that the guy up there has already written down things about you and me. And we are merely all playing out what HE has written out in his bed time story or His new hobby which has lasted more than a few thousand years for now. It's sickening don't you think? If someone up there has ALREADY chosen what we are going to do everyday, what good and lousy decisions we are going to make, isn't it so sad?
I watched The Truman Show recently. Truman is a guy how is on TV 24 hours a day. Except when he has sex (then everything gets blurred out), his life is captured "live" to a worldwide audience. And he dosen't know it. For 10,000 over days, which is close to 30 years, the TV channel boasted so proudly that they are bringing "The Truman Show" live. Everyone around the world sees him from a newborn, to his first step to the first baby tooth that dropped to him getting married. Everything. Everybody loves the show because Truman is real. He's a real human but he's locked up in this impressive and expansive studio with a whole big town and ocean around him. He is real, but everything around him is fake. HIS wife is a fake - an actress. HIS best friend since 7 years old is a fake. So is his neighbour, the passerby on the street, the newspaper vendor. They are all actors.
Everyone knows their role in this human created world. They all know who is Truman and that he cannot find out that he is "the star" of the show. A reality show, if you may, which is breaking all grounds of human rights, freedom of choice and expression and individuality and privacy. In The Truman Show, it breaks all of that.
Firstly you thank god that that's just a show. But a disturbing show at that. The world that his creator has created was so real. So faultless and impeccably planned out that it amazes you. At first you will be in awe of this creator but then you will get pissed with him. Who the hell is he to decide how Truman is to live his life?
To prevent Truman from living, oops I mean leaving, he made him afraid of the water. Most area of the gigantic studio is surrounded by water. He made it his fault of causing his dad's death which he will come to be haunted by in his adult years. That is like brainwashing. Instilling fear in someone.
So its disturbing to see this creator guy playing out The Truman Show as if he was playing chess. One wrong move and he is dead. He places people or obstructions at critical areas to prevent Truman from finding out what a joke he has been.
And what if we are like that too? We play The Sims and we enjoy controlling those people's lives. Some people may say The Sims is a girl's game, but even those so called guy's games also involve controlling life - you just kill people instead. Hey so let's face it. All of us like it if we have some control over certain things. What makes you think that the guy up there don't love it more than us? And when we are playing those stupid games, He is up there laughing at us.
Life is a great big question mark. We don't know what it has ahead of us. And for those people who are so certain that "I am going to be this and this. I am going to do THIS and that. I will become this and THAT.", you make me laugh. Even if we are really just merely chess pieces on our time on Earth, we shouldn't be that sad. Because it is always fun to know what He has chosen for us to do, to meet, to have. I guess it is how you make use of what he has decided for you to the fullest, how you fully appreciate the things you get and have now that will make life slightly better. At least we have a bigger world than Truman to explore.
Well I guess we have to thank him for giving us a big enough playground.
And it's true! The world IS stage and we are all merely actors.
posted at [5:27 PM]
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