It was one typical afternoon in Sydney while I was riding a bus - I spotted this "poem" hanging on the ceiling.
A two year old faith
During a dark cloudy day I asked my two year old son...
What's the color of the sky?
He looked up and said...blue...
I said, "Look again..."
He looked for a while and said...blue...
Some cynical comments began to surface in my mind. Maybe the son was stupid, maybe his "color vocabulary" was limited to red - green - blue, maybe his dad never taught him well, maybe he was wearing blue colored sunglasses, maybe...
But something else came into my mind...
The clouds aren't the real color of the sky...The sky is always blue, no matter what...
This begs the question of focus...Are we focusing on what is before...or what is beyond...?
There are veils in life that can easily obscure our sights. Dreams, Imaginations, Successes, Failures, Education, Beliefs... Not to mention about the "information overload" problem that we currently have in this age of technology. We are getting more and more confused about what or where to focus on and our emotions are manipulated like a reed swayed by the wind - easily excited or threatened by the events presented before us.
Ah...is life really that complicated? Or am I complicating things?
Shouldn't I be like the two year old boy? Or maybe the older I am...the further away I drift from wisdom?
I guess I have to remind myself over and over again...
The sky is always blue...
...unless the night comes...
Sigh...
Show me Your way...that I may walk with You..
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5 comments:
hehehe... udah ngerti :P
habis si koko, cuma cerita gitu aja, trus ga ngejelasin... pas diminta penjelasan, malah suruh gw mikir sendiri.
trus, malah cerita superman sama anak superman yang jadi the flash.
tau ga,
gw waktu itu berpikir cerita si superman bakalan link ke cerita langit biru. huhuhuhuh.
kk chayank,...
gw bukan melan...
mana gw kepikiran kalo makna ceritanya bakalan begitu...
di benak gw, kenapa si papa ga liat sendiri aja warna langitnya?
hehehehe... sekarang, dah ngerti :p
btw, postingan kali ini pasti pelampiasan kesel gara2 gw yg ngerti... hihihiihh.
actually the sky has no color, xiong di.
btw, i am glad finally someone calls you chayank....
Xiong Di,
Scientifically I agree with you...
Philosophically I don't...
It's like saying there is no such thing as cold cause cold is only the absence of heat...
And so the colour of the sky is determined by the presence of light that shines on it...
And since we know that "cold" exists, by the same logic we know that the sky does have colour.
Furthermore, based on your statement - I can say that NOTHING on earth has colour since the "supposed" colour is only the reflection of light...
Then maybe I have to write another entry to say "Nothing is absolute...Everything is relative"
[QUOTE]Ah...is life really that complicated? Or am I complicating things?[/QUOTE]
BOTH!!! Heuheueuehueu.
isnt the answer to a question the rights of the answerers?
i believe there is nothing right or wrong answer except to the question of numbers and measurement which is static things. And since the colour of the sky is something that is always changing; to decide for an answer itself, just like the kid did, when he answered BLUE is already an admirable thing.
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