Oxygen = life
Oxygen = energy
Oxygen = Movement
Oxygen = Ageing
Oxygen = Death
Oxygen = Explosions
Everything thing has two sides to it. Face it.
I hate to say so.... but Ben Yang's lecture had again inspired me.
The videos that he played in class were so captivating, though its not about any hot or handsome artistes. Its about the miracle of life and what has science got to do with life.
Ppl had been trying so hard to keep themselves young. They tr many means and ways and some suceeded.
But whats the price?
The documentary shows a woman who had injected growth hormones into her since dont know when. Maybe since she starts to feel herself ageing. (Come on - we are ageing every min)
She looked like she is in her thirties but in real fact, she is already 56 yrs old.
'Freaking hell!' That must be some woman's reaction when they were striked with this news. Some might be eager to find out how this particular women did this while others might probably think the same way as me - 'What exactly had she sacrificed?'
Injected growth hormone into her veins everyday would be painful but she endured it. She had a youthful look in return. But the price is - the increase risk of cancer.
And yet she had said : I have got nothing to lose. So there is nothing to fear.
There would be nothing wrong with her thinking that.
But what if, what if, if cancer were to strike her at her age, she would have a 'long' way to go, long way to fight it, since she had injected the growth hormone that made her body 'younger'. By then, would she have had the same thought as well? Would she be smiling and saying : Its all worth it. No wrinkles, no fats, no ageing signs for so long and in return, im striken with illnesses that i would anyway get in anytime of my lifetime. What regrets would i have?
There are no right and wrong views about this. Its all a matter of do you think ots worth it or not.
The wrinkles on our mum's faces, the tummy that they have, the weak bones that needed our support.
The wrinkles- Are the evidence of the years she had taken care of us, the troubles that she had gone through in order to make us grow healthly and happily, study well and be well fed.
The tummy - reminds me of the time she had to squeeze me into this world, to welcome me with her smile and in the end, she can this stretch marks cellulite and tummy. She hates it, but i adore it, with reminder of how i came to this world.
The weak bones - remember we were still fetus? We had drained the calcium in her when she was carrying us. When we were born, she had to carry us all the way. whenever we were kids and wanted to be carried by her instead of walking on our own, she will always nod her head with a smlie.
Thats what i felt about woman ageing..... its different from what she thought. Not as ugly as what she had potrayed herself as.
Ageing..... we are in this every minute, with every breath of oxygen that we take in.
Who dont age?
