End of Days

Two days ago I went to watch ‘2012’ the movie. For the first time ever, I went to watch a movie, by myself. It felt weird at first, as what you would see in one of those TV ads, the person sits by himself watching a movie, then starts laughing but looked to the left and right, and there was no one to laugh with. I actually did feel like that. As I saw my friends later on that night, apparently most of them have done the same thing! See, my training session finished earlier than I expected. I was supposed to meet my friends around 8 to 830pm that night. So I had 3 hours to spare. I hadn’t seen 2012, when in fact a lot of people I know have watched the movie. I wanted to know what it was all about. I saw reviews on facebook, it made us think to repent etc etc. Regardless of the religion of the person, a lot of my friends were saying that. And then one of my friends said, it reminds me of Noah’s Ark. Or was it my brother who said that? Nevertheless, as I watched the movie, I realized, they were building ships, not spaceships. It was the catch of the movie I guess. Then I heard a friend say, its supposed to be the end of days, then why are there survivors??

This question has given me an inspiration to write this blog somehow. I know lately my blog has been boring. I was trying too hard to be interesting but it just became hard and I just stopped writing. Heck, I even stopped reading! Even after I finally found my ‘party of one’ book. Back to the end of days. Upon finishing the movie, I thought to myself, in such situations, where would I want to be, and who would I want to be with? What would I want to see before my final breath? Of course, I wouldn’t be ‘the president’ or Italy’s prime minister, leading the ‘last’ prayer. But it is a good deed to be doing upon facing our deaths. A friend said, I would love to be the little family hugging each other, accepting their death. Yes, it is a good thought that you could face the end, in the arms of your loved ones. I tried putting myself in such situations. Being with my loved ones. There’s my fiance’, my brother. But I live in Terengganu. My fiance’ and brother are in KL. Then there’s my sister, mother and father. My father has his own little family. My sister is with my mother. With all these complications, I thought, well maybe I should just face it alone, with God, I hope.

Comes to my next little thought. Where, I couldn’t imagine. No one really knows how death is going to feel like. It could hurt, it could feel of nothing, no one alive knows that. And yet, everyone alive WILL face it. Of course it is scary. The unknown is scary. So I was thinking, death is going to come nevertheless. So the end of days, is just death in multiples? If we were thinking individually. Is it so bad? You may beg to differ. I am just sharing my thoughts. Would you, as an individual, choose to accept the consequences around, or would you, actually fight to live? In this case, religions and beliefs have their own teachings. I will not discuss on that. We saw in 2012, that little family chose to fight for their lives, and they survived! Whereas those who stayed and prayed, did not. I know this topic may be controversial. I have had this thought all my life. God determines our fate. At the same time, tells us to fight for our lives and make a difference. It’s just a movie. But I saw the value. It could be the end of days. But none of us really know when is the apocalypse is going to happen. As told in Noah’s ark story, God cleaned up earth. But these species on the ark survived. It was not the end of days yet. The 2012 movie depicted almost the same message.

Millions of years ago, dinosaurs became extinct because they could not survive the earth’s surface changing. The earth’s plates moved and continents were changed. This is what happened in the 2012 movie. It was showing, how humans were intelligent enough to survive such catastrophe! Is it possible? There was a riddle asked during an office event. Which species or animal that can fly, but they have NO WINGS? And guess what the answer is. HUMANS! Human beings are intelligent enough to fly even without evolving wings. They can swim, and submerge underwater without fins. They can dig holes so deep like a mole. They can find resources and turn it into unimaginable things. Yes, ants can carry items so much heavier than its own body weight. But humans can build skyscrapers! Humans can build machineries!

We have seen various movies, where humans escape the apocalypse by going into space and so on. But the 2012 movie, I don’t know. It seems feasible. Nah, only God the Almighty knows for sure. As for me….I only have my humble thoughts to share. God is Great.