Sunday, June 17, 2007
Dear Diary,
This world is too material. U can be an idealist all you want, but at the end of the day, I will be sitting down at the kopi tiam near your house and watching you pick and choose your choice of dinner.
Suddenly it struck me.
Why not use Heartbeats as currency.
I know this might sound absurd and make me an idiot with nothing better to do. But think about it.
Let say you are given like X amount of heart beats in your life. Where everyone has the same amount.
Every since you are born, you start the countdown of your life. With a digital watch to keep count.
Want something to drink or eat? pay 2 heartbeats.
Want something Better? Pay 5 heartbeats.
If thats the case, What would you do. Not eat? most uncertainly.
Most importantly would you bother living at all, watching those numbers tick would drive ppl mad. But wont it add so much more meaning to whatever you are doing.
This way everything is worth something close and valuable to you.
Want a sports car? pay 10000 for it. Would you??
Musnt you consider the people that made the car? how much heartbeats and sweat they wasted to manufacture it.
Or worst. Would people even work? No one would pay you. With what?? You cant give heartbeats away??
Would you go play soccer, knowing that your heart would pound faster.
Would you go watch a action pack movie, knowing the adrenaline would just make your heart pump faster.
Would you Fall in love??
Knowing that this girl would take your breath away and your heart races each time she is near.
Sex would be out of the question then.
Because in this world, you never take. All you do is Give. Would you then be selfish and only think about conserving your own heartbeats or would you try your very best to influence your surroundings and other people's life. Would you want to make an impact/a difference?
I cant imagine a world like this.
Would there still be Buildings, roads and infrastructure?
If you ask me? I would go all out to live my life. Trying not to waste a single heartbeat, this way I could really life my life to the fullest because this time, I can measure "fullest".
And I would gladly give my heartbeats to the girl I love dearly.
At the end of it all, during my last 100 heart beats, I want to be sitting down at home. With a glass of orange juice, with my wife and kids. And I would tell them that All this was worth every single heartbeat.
*p.s ok maybe not the times that I wasted heartbeats in the toilet shitting.
Shut the Fuck up And listen -4:21 AM
