Born just to live to die...
Think about it...an estimate of about 4.4 babies are born every second around the world...and then what? From the moment an infant is conceived, it starts to develop and in that very process starts to deteriorate even.Oxy-moron - to grow in deterioration. Ha.
Mind boggling...nevertheless its true isn't it? All living organisms are the same. Live to die. Cells die, they don't regenerate...they just multiply.
Anyway...I've been thinking about my own life and my own body. I was 13 (boy...that was 16yrs ago!), and I was just learning how to play basketball. Back then I was just a scrawny and short kid who lacked the fundamentals and the experience in the game (I'm still scrawny and short, just aint a kid no longer..ha!).
I remembered as I grew to like the game, I would play for hours non-stop with my mates. We would even play for whole days during school vacation. Of course in time, I improved. My mates improved.
Well, I peaked when I was 24, which was 5 years back. It wasn't even when I was in the UK when I was 23. I sucked in a competition in UK then. Ha.
Now, at 29...I'm going downhill man. My legs don't move as quick as I want them to no more. Now my body takes a week to recover after just 3hrs of sports. Lack of match practice and exercise you might say? Maybe...but wait a minute...read on...
You see...it used to be that my mind would command my legs to jump, and I would jump (hey, I know I could reach that height ok, I did many times before...no sweat!) but no...now I'm just pathetic.
I used to just be able to think a steal, and I stole the ball (minimum 2-3 steals per game and a guaranteed ONE steal per game). To those who don't play basketball, trust me, it ain't easy to steal a ball from your opponent...not when they are bigger sized than you.
I use to think a sprint, and I was the first up the court. Now...ha...it's all just plain thinking...wahaha! I can't do those no more. Maybe on occassions...when it was just pure mind over body, when I pushed myself to hussle and I managed. Other than that, it's dream on for me...
I peaked just to go downhill. Ha.
In parallel...as infants, our bodies peak when we reach adulthood...and we go downhill right from there, entering into another phase as senior citizens...
...then we DIE. Ha.
Body...mind...LIFE.
Go figure it out...and let me know if you do.
posted by HanQiang @ 4:31 pm
1 Comments:
Hey, I totally agree, man. I feel the aging of my body too. Not only is my body less able, my mind & will are also less able. I used to be able to think, "just run another round, push yourself!" And I would, tho i'd nearly die. Now, I go easy on myself, "Why suffer? Just don't run lah!" Aren't we supposed to grow in character as we grow older? But as i grow older, I realise that I (and others as well!) lose discipline & perseverance. I learn to relax rather than learn to suffer. Every generation deteriorates a little bit more. (My pastor has a cheem term for it.) But REDEMPTION's possible yet. Press on....
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