I hate choices. I've hated them all my life. It started with a fear ... the fear of making them, and the fear of being put in a decision, that had no positive outcome. The fear soon turned into anger, and produced this intense hate with word "Choose" ... between and amongst relations, most importantly.
The logic behind my hating choices isn't complicated as much as it is a difference in thinking. Different than any other, I believe there is no need to have choice. Look past choice, and wonder if you can have it both ... have it all, instead of limiting yourself to a number. I have a thing against limitations. My belief, that the whole world can be held into your hands ... as long as there are no limits ... and the first step is realization.
Of course, then again, I have had this comparison with Greek Philosopher Socrates made a couple of times ... they say his thoughts were different than all other philosophers ... so significant was his contribution, that everything else was either Post-Socrates or Pre-Socrates ...
If I can let you live life as you want to, I deserve the same. Honor me with what I ask, for it's not a lot ... I'm just asking to live my life ...
A Chinese Proverb goes a little something like
"Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own."
And in a more relative fashion, I'd like to quote the lyrics of Alice in Chains guitarist, Jerry Cantrell , for the Alice in Chains song, "Would";
"Into the flood again, same old trip it was back then ... So I made a big mistake ... try to see it once my way... Am I wrong? Have I run too far to get home?"
One fear I've always had was the fear of being lonely ... I've struggled with loneliness all my life ... as a child, when all I did was sit in my corner looking at the world pass me by. And then, when people decided to leave, ever so careless, I looked back at what I've become and wonder ...
Am I to blame? Is it all my fault? It has to be ... Since all chances are taken away in the blink of an eye ... people become careless to a lot of things, it's anger that makes them ...
I don't have anyone to blame ... I don't have anything to regret either, since I don't believe in regrets anymore ...
All I can do is blame myself ... for being so different, I guess ... for having my own thoughts and my own ways ...
... I have no choice.
Jan 19, 2008
Jan 12, 2008
2007
I remember I made a similar time line when 2006 started, right here on this blog. So, it's been another year already.
Year 2007 was a common year starting on Monday. In the Chinese Calendar, dates from February 18 onwards are in the Year of the Boar (or Pig)
Ongoing in 2007:
Deaths:
Year 2007 was a common year starting on Monday. In the Chinese Calendar, dates from February 18 onwards are in the Year of the Boar (or Pig)
Events of 2007
- January 10 - U.S. President George W. Bush announces a plan to station 21,500 additional troops in Iraq.
- January 12 - Comet McNaught, the brightest comet in over 40 years, makes perihelion.
- January 17 - Protests occur in India and the United Kingdom against the British series of Celebrity Big Brother after Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara were alleged to have been racially abusive towards Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty.
- January 17 - Hurricane force winds from storm Kyrill claim at least 40 lives in western Europe.
- January 30 - Microsoft releases Windows Vista and Office 2007
- February 2 - An unseasonal tornado in central Florida kills at least 20 people.
- February 3 - State of Emergency is declared in Indonesia after 'El Nino'-like flooding.
- February 11 - The 49th Annual Grammy Awards take place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
- March 3 - Total lunar eclipse.
- March 31 - Sydney, Australia, turns off its lights for 1 hour between 7:30pm and 8:30pm as a political statement for Global Climate Change.
- April 2 - Smoke ban in enclosed places in Wales
- April 11 - Al Qaeda claims responsibility for two bomb blasts in the Algerian capital of Algiers. At least 33 people have been killed and 222 others injured.
- April 17 - The Pound Sterling hits a 15-year high against the US dollar, breaking through the US$2 level for the first time since 1992.
- April 25 - The Burj Dubai reaches the height of the Sears Tower on its way to becoming the tallest building in the world.
- May 4 - Tornado strikes Greensburg, Kansas, killing at least 12 and destroying about 90% of the town.
- June 6 - Twelve people are killed by cyclone Gonu in Oman.
- June 8 - The Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully launched on mission STS-117.
Launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis
- June 25 - WWE wrestler Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy Benoit, and son Daniel, are found dead as the result of a murder-suicide that took place over the previous weekend.
- June 25 - Intense heatwaves begin to hit Southeast Europe as temperatures reach 46c in Bulgaria and Greece.
- June 28 - In the aftermath of Greece's worst heatwave in a century, at least 11 people are reported dead from heatstroke, approximately 200 wildfires break out nationwide, and the country's electricity grid nearly collapses due to record breaking demand.
- June 29 - Apple's new iPhone is released in the US
- July 1 - Smoking in public and work places is banned in England.
- July 1 - Smoking is banned in pubs and clubs in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia.
- July 4 - The 50-star U.S. flag becomes the longest-flying American flag, replacing the 48-star flag that flew from 1912 to 1959.
- July 7 - Live Earth Concerts are held throughout 9 major cities around the world.
- July 21 - The final epic novel in J.K. Rowling's bestselling series Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was released selling over 8 million copies in the first 24 hours.
- July 29 - Iraq wins its first Asian Cup football championship, beating Saudi Arabia 1-0.
- August 4 - Smoking in public places is banned in Slovenia.
- August 8 - The Space Shuttle Endeavour is successfully launched on mission STS-118.
- August 12 - Tiger Woods wins PGA Championship, his 13th career major.
- August 14 - Pakistan marks the 60th anniversary of their independence from the British Empire.
- September 13 - The Burj Dubai became the world's tallest free standing structure after surpassing the CN Tower in Toronto.
- September 25 - Microsoft released Halo 3, made by Bungie 3.3 Million copies have been sold and helped sell over 500,000 Xbox360's.
- October 1 - The minimum age for purchasing tobacco products is raised from 16 to 18 across England and Wales.
- October 6 - Presidential election occurs in Pakistan.
- October 18 - After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing 136 in the cheering crowd, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escaped uninjured.
- October 20–November 9 - Wildfires in Southern California result in the evacuation of more than 1,000,000 people and destroying over 1,600 homes and businesses.
- October 26 - Apple Inc. launch the sixth major release of their Mac OS X operating system entitled, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
- November 3 - President Pervez Musharraf declares state of emergency in Pakistan.
- November 28 - President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf stands down as the head of the Pakistan Army and was successed by Lt. General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.
- December 10 - Led Zeppelin reunites in London, England, for the Ahmet Ertegün tribute.
- December 15 - President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf had lifted the State of Emergency in Pakistan.
- December 27 - Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated, and at least 20 others are killed by a bomb blast at an election rally in Rawalpindi.
Ongoing in 2007:
Deaths:
- January 30 - Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
- December 27 - Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician (b. 1953)
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