Sora, the Sky: April 2009

Once, there is a boy named John who lived in the countryside of a Great City. John was university first year student who major in architecture and wished to be a world-renowned architect as his father did. He would like to own a city development company and manage his people to build the Babylon skyscraper and Hanging Garden of new era. However, there was a great setback in his personalities which made this dream seemed impossible. He was passive and found no interest in knowing a new friend or calling the known one. He was more or less, anti-socialist.

He did try to talk to his classmates, his teachers, or even the school janitors to find a common topic within them. But it failed. Perhaps he did not try as hard as he could or maybe he was born to behave like that. He heard words from the others like a student to a teacher. The words flow through the brain, one ear in, and one ear out. He could easily forget his newly friend’s name in a blinking of eyes even he was told about it thrice. After that, he would be too shy to ask for the friend’s name again. Hence, he never truly knows his friends. How ironically it is.

John loved to be alone in his room. In the contrast, he hated to be alone in a party. You might notice how strange a person could be, for him who was lonely but refused to befriend with his fellow classmates. And he thought of that too.

He used to think how one should live his life and if the happiness is the ultimate goal of life, how to define one’s happiness from another. “I could never be satisfied to die before I learn the true meaning of life” He thought. Some of his so-called friends told him that living in the present and to be content to what you have would bring you the true happiness. While Gary denied the idea and stated, “By improving yourself constantly so you are better than yesterday. You might not find the happiness but you are ALIVE!”

Various thought and ideas he heard, he read, stated the different point of views around the globe. He was confused and became unsure of himself.

John might never be able to find the answer before the Judgment Day of his, but he knew he could never give up. As a famous proverb stated,

“A man is failed only if he gave up or dead”

Like millions of intelligent living, he continued his journey.