New Years Eve is one of those bittersweet nights. It is filled with anxiety, eagerness and general happiness of a new start. At the same time, it is filled with sadness, sorrow and dampness due to the passing of yet another precious year in our such short lives. It is the night that we truly realize the constant movement of time and find ourselves looking at our calenders wondering what happened to yesteryear.
See, the thing about time is that it is always moving. It's like a light wave/photon, always moving in one direction but never another. That area is passed, it will never pass again.
Many people feel that time moves too fast, to be honest I'm not really one of them. I feel like time moves at a good speed, it moves just right. We can accomplish so much in our lives at this speed, and it's a speed that motivates us to always do our best.
But It's still very scary that 2011 is already here and that is the thing about time. Because it moves in one direction, just the fact that it moves is very scary. Once a moment of time has gone by, once 11:33 December 31st 2010 is gone, it will never, ever repeat itself. That alone I think is what scares us so much, is why we feel time moves so fast. So it is, that the moment of 2010 is over.
and so it is, that, once again that same night (new years eve) has come and I believe it is a night of reminiscing our personal and species wide accomplishments for that year, that is what this blog post is about. Me writing a quick summarized record of 2010.
Well, 2010 had a great start. The first two months were jolly.
January of course is always nice, it's the end of the semester (first semester of grade 10,) so every thing has kind of relaxed out in a way OR everything has got really busy with preparations for exams (which at the beginning of this year is something I did not do) 24th January is my birthday (which happens to be in the middle of exams) [Which at this point I didn't really care about either] January was a happy month in general though. I had all of my friends, we were together in our own little circle. Also the opening of Burj_Khalifa is probably one of the more symbolic events of this month.
February started off great, I had my birthday party early on which was all good and fun. Later in February came the winter Olympics, which I followed pretty actively. Late February started growing darker as I realized a few of my friends and I were starting to drift away. Practiced for the CAP buyout.
March was the absolute low of this year for me. I lost 3 friends this month which is one of the most painful things anyone can go through. one of them being one of the closest friends I have ever known, the kind you hang out with every day and gone for reasons that I do not know. Obviously I messed up there some how, wish I knew how. Another being a friend I've always admired and loved but alas inevitably we drifted apart with a change in our lives. March was a hard month, one fights to get through it.
The sadness of March continued into April for me, where early April was hard but it got much better. Late in April we took a trip with my dad, stayed at Niagra falls over the weekend which was a very well needed rest and a great change :p At this point, I was having some fun in my courses. Guitar was great, History was lots of fun and interesting. English was English, civics and careers were civics and careers :P April was painful in many other ways though, and the biggest way being the BP Oil spill. I did also get my G1 drivers license this month :p
May, things started looking up. I started feeling closer to a friend who had begun to drift away, I learned to forget about the other two. On the other hand, I believe the protests in Thailand were during this month.
June, The end of the year is always an exciting thing, I still didn't worry much about exams, especially considering my easier semester. Guitar exam was fun to "study" for, I think it was the only one I really tried studying. I felt a bit closer day by day to certain friends and things looked up. Excited for summer is the general feeling from this month, every year. This years June, I think the biggest thing that I paid attention to was the FIFA world cup, soccer isn't normally a sport I enjoy. But I really got into it this year, cheered for Argentina! :)
July was huge, and tiny at the same time. On the 3rd of July, one of my biggest dreams came true. I saw Iron Maiden live at Molson. Huge. Also started this blog that same night. July 8th I received my new guitar <3. July 18th I watched Rush live in concert with my brother which once again was massive. July 29th was the night I saw Megadeth, Slayer and Testament live, again with my brother. So why was July also tiny? Because I suffered in summer camp volunteering through out the month :P
Throughout August, I was generally very excited for the release of Iron Maidens new album "The Final Frontier," which came, I heard and loved. At the same time, I was saddened and generally scared due to the floods in my native land, Pakistan.
September as usual was all about getting back to school, meeting up with friends again and getting back into the usual school routine.
In October, I took the oath for Canadian Citizenship. October was also the month that the many Chilean miners were rescued, a symbolization of human survival and effort :P
November is a lot more recent, a generally happy month. I performed for the first time at Java Jive and Pie and I feel like I'm growing closer to to a lot of my friends. Important things from this month, I think were the G20/ G8 here in Toronto and Wikileaks which is monumental for the world.
December continues the happiness from November, the year has come to a nice little conclusion for me. I can't really remember anything huge happening this month apart from in the lives of a few friends, but on the planet I think it was a quieter month =p
Well, there is my badly worded, quick summarization that misses out on every thing. It fails to capture the beauty of the moment as it should, but at least it's a small record of what this year has been like.
First song of the new year: Different World - Iron Maiden
fitting I think
Friday, December 31, 2010
Saturday, December 18, 2010
And he realizes the miracle of life
Controversial post: This post might not necessarily be very supportive of a superior deity, I mean no offense to any one.
In this post, I guess I'll be using an analogy of human beings and other multi cellular, complex living organisms such as rats, but the point applies to every thing
that lives, and even those that don't on this planet.
On Thursday December 16th, we dissected a rat in biology class. At first, I was amongst the many who were exceptionally scared of the dissection and rather "creeped out" by it. At the same time, I was also amongst those were very excited about it. I realized that this was really a fascinating opportunity to learn about anatomy of living beings in a first hand experience sort of situation.
The dissection it self though, did bring to my mind many old realizations that I have had before. But it really made me marvel the beauty and miracle that is life even more.
I was able to see how through the smallest invisible codes, nature is able to produce an immaculate, efficient and perfect system for sustainability and existence. Inside the body, you are able to see how perfectly everything is constructed. How the natural creation of nature is so much more perfect than the most perfect robotics any human could hope to build and how it's fueled and run on something that humanity might never achieve.
Humans have of course dumbed things down to a comprehensible level, but the miracle of nature is amazing. Consider for example, the liver found in your body. Is that actually a liver? No of course not, "liver" is simply a term given to it by human beings. In reality it is another component in a perfect system. It is a natural part that nature finds necessary to perform the functions for life. The same thing applies to the lungs, the heart, the stomach and so on.
This is a very hard concept to put in to words.
Each organ, each artery, each nerve, each cell it self are so immaculately placed by nature. They are like puzzle pieces that only together combine to make a perfect system, a system that supports living beings of different needs. It is almost, as if nature it self is like a human being, like the scientists who built the first nuclear bomb, or those who first discovered the cure for another dangerous disease, with long drawn out calculations and experimentation that help to find what works and what doesn't.
Is it not almost like humans are engineered by nature in a way of formulas and connections that for sure work?
But you see my friends, that is not the case. Nature is no human being, it is no living entity but some thing so much greater. It does not think, it does not calculate, yet...Nature has, through it's own natural processes figured out a beautiful configuration for a living being. It has on it's own, without a mind to think, configured and created every thing that we know on this planet and then the trillions of others out there.
Nature is able to, without use of a mind or any thought process or anything of sort, calculate perfectly the various functions of life. It is able to calculate perfectly where the human lungs are located and what muscles contractions will break down food to be used how by cells which travel to which parts of the body.
What happens in the womb of a mother, or in the DNA replication of a cell is truly a miracle of life.
Just sit back in your comfortable chair and think for one second. You exist. That's right, you can feel your keyboard under your fingers. Inside your body, the immaculate processes of millions of smaller living organisms continue on. The perfect system of your body if continuously moving.
But just the fact, that you can sit there and think, the concept of thinking. The beauty of existence. It is real, it's like a dream isn't it? But it is real apparently. The fact that you can see what you see, that out side the clouds, or the moon are in the sky. That you have friends who too are each a miracle them selves, that is amazing.
Like so, that spider I saw earlier today. Just the fact that it is in deed a living, breathing being. That it does feel fear and has it's own instincts, that it can see. That it exists, it's a miracle.
This is one of the amazing miracles of nature. Why things happen, how nature is able to manufacture such an amazing device that is life. How nature is able to cause just chemical reactions to occur. How we all exist, every thing in existence is like a miracle in a way.
I'm pretty sure that every body has thought about this before, or at least a lot of people have, it's something that comes to mind often when laying in your during a night of rough insomnia.
But this is one of the many reasons I'm so fascinated by science. Science answers these questions and though I am some what disappointed in the fact that science has killed humanities ability to dream by reducing those beautiful starts and the universe to mathematical equations. It does help to answer many, many of natures amazing miracles. It gives us an insight as to how it happened. But one thing it will never take away from us all is that it is a miracle.
In this post, I guess I'll be using an analogy of human beings and other multi cellular, complex living organisms such as rats, but the point applies to every thing that lives, and even those that don't on this planet.
On Thursday December 16th, we dissected a rat in biology class. At first, I was amongst the many who were exceptionally scared of the dissection and rather "creeped out" by it. At the same time, I was also amongst those were very excited about it. I realized that this was really a fascinating opportunity to learn about anatomy of living beings in a first hand experience sort of situation.
The dissection it self though, did bring to my mind many old realizations that I have had before. But it really made me marvel the beauty and miracle that is life even more.
I was able to see how through the smallest invisible codes, nature is able to produce an immaculate, efficient and perfect system for sustainability and existence. Inside the body, you are able to see how perfectly everything is constructed. How the natural creation of nature is so much more perfect than the most perfect robotics any human could hope to build and how it's fueled and run on something that humanity might never achieve.
Humans have of course dumbed things down to a comprehensible level, but the miracle of nature is amazing. Consider for example, the liver found in your body. Is that actually a liver? No of course not, "liver" is simply a term given to it by human beings. In reality it is another component in a perfect system. It is a natural part that nature finds necessary to perform the functions for life. The same thing applies to the lungs, the heart, the stomach and so on.
This is a very hard concept to put in to words.
Each organ, each artery, each nerve, each cell it self are so immaculately placed by nature. They are like puzzle pieces that only together combine to make a perfect system, a system that supports living beings of different needs. It is almost, as if nature it self is like a human being, like the scientists who built the first nuclear bomb, or those who first discovered the cure for another dangerous disease, with long drawn out calculations and experimentation that help to find what works and what doesn't.
Is it not almost like humans are engineered by nature in a way of formulas and connections that for sure work?
But you see my friends, that is not the case. Nature is no human being, it is no living entity but some thing so much greater. It does not think, it does not calculate, yet...Nature has, through it's own natural processes figured out a beautiful configuration for a living being. It has on it's own, without a mind to think, configured and created every thing that we know on this planet and then the trillions of others out there.
Nature is able to, without use of a mind or any thought process or anything of sort, calculate perfectly the various functions of life. It is able to calculate perfectly where the human lungs are located and what muscles contractions will break down food to be used how by cells which travel to which parts of the body.
What happens in the womb of a mother, or in the DNA replication of a cell is truly a miracle of life.
Just sit back in your comfortable chair and think for one second. You exist. That's right, you can feel your keyboard under your fingers. Inside your body, the immaculate processes of millions of smaller living organisms continue on. The perfect system of your body if continuously moving.
But just the fact, that you can sit there and think, the concept of thinking. The beauty of existence. It is real, it's like a dream isn't it? But it is real apparently. The fact that you can see what you see, that out side the clouds, or the moon are in the sky. That you have friends who too are each a miracle them selves, that is amazing.
Like so, that spider I saw earlier today. Just the fact that it is in deed a living, breathing being. That it does feel fear and has it's own instincts, that it can see. That it exists, it's a miracle.
This is one of the amazing miracles of nature. Why things happen, how nature is able to manufacture such an amazing device that is life. How nature is able to cause just chemical reactions to occur. How we all exist, every thing in existence is like a miracle in a way.
I'm pretty sure that every body has thought about this before, or at least a lot of people have, it's something that comes to mind often when laying in your during a night of rough insomnia.
But this is one of the many reasons I'm so fascinated by science. Science answers these questions and though I am some what disappointed in the fact that science has killed humanities ability to dream by reducing those beautiful starts and the universe to mathematical equations. It does help to answer many, many of natures amazing miracles. It gives us an insight as to how it happened. But one thing it will never take away from us all is that it is a miracle.
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