Where is Your Home?
In some episode (I forget which one) of Prison Break, our beloved character "Van Gogh" passed away. Although it almost becomes a "fashion" to write a "prayer" for every character that died in Prison Break, I do not plan to do so. And it seems that Haywire does not worth it, either—he does not seem to belong to this world where we do.
Then we heard this song Home at Haywire's fall. It felt a bit strange, but not out of place. "Home", such a warm word. It is so warm that people often forget why it is.
Dictionaries would not miss out on the word "family" for the entry "home", yet they might forget the word "destination"—although probably the word "home" "shines" because of, not "family", but "destination". There is a line in Trainspotting said by the character Mark Renton: Here I was surrounded by my family and my so-called mates and I've never felt so alone. Probably he felt this way because he felt his destination missing.
Where is your home? Maybe it is not about family, but it must be about where you belong. Is it where you are now, or is it the neverland that you have been looking for for so long, with blue sky, bright sunshine, and windmills rotating with refreshing breeze?
But I guess the lyrics are right anyway, One day you really got to go home.
6 comments:
Wow, this entry is nice, the song is nice too. And you do make me think, you know, about the "destination" stuff. I never knew that PB could have so many levels. Sometime I feel that life is like an equation, on both sides of which, there are zeros. One is nothing before his/her birth and vanishes after death. So what do people live for? And where is the destination of someone who doesn't believe in any religion, like me.
I wasn't shocked much at haywire's death, ruthless maybe, but I really think this is how he went to Holland, the dream land he belongs to. I'm still finding mine, painstakingly.
I did not expect any comment on this one, you know, like I did not expect any on my other entries, either. :p (As you see, if I did, I would have gone nuts!) So, what a surprise!
Your “equation theory" is very interesting. As I see it, the left side of the equation might be zero, while the other side is not; since history is more developed than futurology, at least for now. One could hardly predict Mao’s birthday, yet one certainly could find out the day he died and what he did before that. He “vanished”, but his name, his stories remained--although the versions of the stories might vary, and in some he is portrayed as a savior while in others--a dictator.
You might say after one’s death, his/her stories do not make any sense to himself/herself. But if you look at a bigger picture—human kind, they does make sense. If it were not for Edison, we still were living in the dark.
However, the opinion above is just one side of a coin—the simplified and bright side. I remember Schopenhauer’s quite different and impressive view on life and death: Pain is the normal condition of life. Pleasure is only the temporary absence of pain. Life is meaningless and death is noble.
So what do you think about these quite conflicting views?
Probably there is no right and wrong. There are only different religions, and everyone lives to live up to his/her own religion. And therefore life is not an equation, or an adventure, either; life is how you see it.
And that, is the puzzle of life: finding out that very religion (and that very destination) of your own, and going “home”.
...but I really think this is how he went to Holland, the dream land he belongs to...
That is exactly what I meant by saying “he did not need a prayer”. He lived in his own world, and found out his destination in the end.
Actually, my equation theory is about single person, not about the whole human beings. As for Mao, he did do a lot and alter the history; we can even find his body in the middle of Tiananmen Square. But now, "he ever existed" only because "we know that", while he himself will never realize it anymore, he vanished. So if there is no afterlife, on one can look back and enjoy his/her life again after decease, why life is still worth living?
Yes, yes, to live for mankind, to give for mankind. That is what they told me in the school. But have you ever thought this on an even larger scale, large as the whole universe? We know nothing about the universe; we are only tiny elements in the process of its evolution. We don't even know where the termination of the process is, thus every step we take now seems to be meaningless. Maybe, while I'm writing this comment, millions of out-space civilizations are disappearing, they are in vain to us, they are meaningless to the rest of the universe. What if the university suddenly shut down now? All gone!
A religion often sets up a good hope for its believer, like Christians believe in heaven; Buddhists insist on afterlife, people of communism, which I consider as a kind of religion, are dreaming about so-called communist society. But, did these people ever think about their destination a little bit further? What is the "new heaven" of people who are already in heaven? Is there any new mission for people in the afterlife? And what is the next society form after communist society? If they are already the termination of human's life, then people who stay there must feel boring, because they won't have any further hopes anymore. If the terminal itself is meaningless, what on earth is the mission of our current life?
I know, this is a little bit Taoism, making me look cynical. I have some Taoism idea in mind, but I can't bear Taoism's blank simple life. I want a colorful life, a big adventure, but I'm confused right now. I try not to think about the universe, pretending to be a fool as Forrest Gump. But I'm still losing my way.
i think you are right about "everyone lives to live up to his/her own religion", i just don't know which is mine.
...So if there is no afterlife, on one can look back and enjoy his/her life again after decease, why life is still worth living?...
...What if the university suddenly shut down now? All gone!...
...But, did these people ever think about their destination a little bit further? What is the "new heaven" of people who are already in heaven?...
I got you. Your theory is, only eternity makes sense, and since nothing lasts for eternity, nothing makes sense; everything is meaningless and insignificant.
Therefore, if one believes among the 365 days in a year, only he/her birthday is a happy day, he/she would not be happy the other 364 days. You got me?
...But have you ever thought this on an even larger scale, large as the whole universe?...
...we are only tiny elements in the process of its evolution. We don't even know where the termination of the process is, thus every step we take now seems to be meaningless...
...millions of out-space civilizations are disappearing, they are in vain to us, they are meaningless to the rest of the universe...
And when you said things in macrocosm do not make sense in cosmocosm, you missed a point: things in macrocosm do not make sense in microcosm, either--like Newton’s classical mechanics breaks down at atomic level (microcosm) and is replaced by quantum mechanics.
You have to stay in one picture when comparing things, you know? In other words, you expect too much! :b
As for Taoism, which belongs to oriental philosophy, I do not know much about it. So I will not comment. I will check it out someday.
This is to make myself clear: when I said "You have to stay in one picture", I meant, for us (macrocosm), cosmocosm is not a bigger picture, it is another picture; and microcosm is, too.
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