Sunday, July 06, 2008


"Dun get ur hopes up high"


I think the above is just one of the crappiest statements in the whole of human language. Utter bullshit. 废话.

No soldier goes into the battlefield without hope. No sane one. Not even if its a 1000000 to 1 fight. Either you fight to the end, hoping for some miracle, or you run. You fight, hoping that you will live. You run, hoping that you will live. My point is, even in moments of unimaginable adversity, in the face of impossible odds and in the depths of darkest despair, one will still hope. And the moment you stop hoping is the moment you stop breathing.

We human beings are slaves to our emotions. And unfortunately, hope is one of the strongest, or most intense of them. More often than not, to hope or not to hope is not a conscious decision. And once you have started to hope, there is no on/off switch to flick, let alone a dial to adjust your "hope settings" to "moderate".

So next time when you want to say "dun get your hopes high" to someone else. Think again. How would it feel to be on the receiving end of one of mankind's most meaningless statements? 希望越大,失望越大? 谁不知道? 说点别的吧.

I rest my case.

posted by nwxiang at 11:11 PM |


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