the depiction of the human face in all its vulnerability and suffering
today i chanced upon something which i didn't think i was supposed to see. and what a shock it was. being someone who's easily affected by things surrounding me, i found it hard to keep myself from thinking about it. sigh, maybe it's because the harshness of reality only strikes you when you witness people around you becoming poor victims of fate. i mean, somehow people just don't get as affected when they know of the overwhelming statistics of cancer cases, as opposed to when they receive news that someone they know (whom they may not necessarily be on close relation) has contracted cancer. it's only when reality hits home that things strike a chord in one's heart. and then i start to think, how exactly do people get "targetted"? the unpredictabilities of life - cancer, car accidents, miscarriage, disabilities.. the infinite list just goes on. is it all predestined that one gets "chosen" to go through such trial and tribulation while another only suffers for the more trivial things in life? is it just a stroke of bad luck that we can easily blame on random probability? and if we really can just blame a series of unfortunate events on bad luck, will this make life appear fairer for everyone? can you say that life is fair; it's just too bad that you're unlucky? the answer is no, because luck messes up the equation of fairness. really, after whatever little i've seen in this life i lead, i can't help but think.. life is so unfair.
