Dear Diary,
Been attending a lot of gatherings, chalet, all those kind of sstuff people do to make themselves feel young again. Well, I would not concede that I am old, especially since I, technically, am not old. Just 19 and with singapore's life expectancy being 80 as said by MM Lee, I still have a long way to go man... However, does age really serve as a terrific indicator of youth or....(can't remember the opposite of youth...perhaps someone can tell me about it?) I don't think so.. Met quite a few of those active senior citizens, with an average age of about 70 or so and they still have such an upbeat view about the life which they want to lead, fulfill dreams that they had not done so in the past. They were so much younger than me in my perspective. they are the teenagers of the society, although really, I must say that they are really a fortunate bunch of old folks, still healthy, retired, filial children, of course they are very much eligible to be like what they are... Anyway, that is beside the point. In my opinion the term an ageing population takes on a whole new meaning, at least for me... I feel stretched, like butter spread on too much bread, I no longer have the drive like I used to in the past when I was much younger.. Does ageing population means the emergence of too many old folks, no longer economically active or does it mean the emergence of the greying of youths? Perhaps it is only affecting me.. I don't know. I don't have the tenacity to see through things anymore...
Humans.. the leader of the animal kingdom, the species with the biggest brains and how we have evolved. In the very very distant past, we only had had to survive the wild, survive the harsh conditions that mother nature decrees that we had to endure and although we still have to do such things, survival is getting more and more complicated especially when it comes to surviving humanity. I hate this feeling of having to surviving humanity, afterall, we are all the same species and that pretty much makes us one big family and why are we still fighting each other. Millions of people are displaced everyday and I suspect that that is a crude understatement. Look at the children in the African regions, recall the fate of blacks in the past, predict the fate of the world in the future, did we really evolve or de-evolve to be exact? I don't know..
Well, I do want to do something for the Earth, for humanity, for this place I call home but I guess you can only do something like that when you get into the upper ecthelions of the Earth before something like that can be done on an individual basis... Hence, I guess it is only apt that I shut up and get on with life..