A leaf from my journal

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.” - Woody Allen

It's another rainy Tuesday morning… it doesn't make any difference to me though. I'm staying indoors again today. The number of my winged friends that come to die in my bed is significantly reduced. Thanks to the weather, I guess.

I had a wonderful time yesterday cracking my brains for writing again. It took the whole day to accomplish such. It's like I'm working again. I'm down on my last 100 pages of Twilight. It's interesting, indeed. Very easy to read. The love between Bella and Edward is overwhelmingly cheesy. Falling in love with your own food… what could be more tragic than that? Or creepier? Yes, we are discouraged from playing with our food, but we are never told not to obsessed over them. I shudder to think about special diets. But at least the love story of Bella and Edward has a happy-forever-after ending… I skimmed through the later books, hehehe.

I can somehow understand why this particular vampire story is appealing to readers. Edward Cullen is the best "noble savage"… a monster with a heart. And Bella Swan is the perfect martyr. What could be more beautiful than giving up everything just to be with your love? She is literally worshiping the ground he walked on… who could blame her, he is a perfect predator. He is naturally attractive to his prey. Such unconditional love is what most people long for from a lover.

A lot could be learn from their restraint. Indeed, to love is to suffer.

Ahh… all these stuff about love. I'm done watching Butterfly Lovers and Cyborg Girl. I love them! And the sacrifices they do in the name of love.