Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Pieces of Existence

Been thinking about this problem for quite some time.

To quote from Discworld:
What's it all about? Seriously? When you get right down to it?

I'm on msn, I have 2 emails addresses, my handphone is on all the time. I am somehow active on facebook, and I have many characters in MapleStory.
These are part of the pieces of my existence to certain groups of people, but I can switch all of them off, and indeed I did for some time a while ago.
When these pieces of my existence and social contact disappear, apparently part of my own existence turned less solid as well.
When people get used to knowing you via these little pieces of you, they judge you and understand you mainly through these ways.
When you stopped appearing via these methods, the "you" gets forgotten eventually, even though there is indeed such a living, solid person right here and at the back of their minds they know it.
But the fact is, one do get forgotten rather easily. Or I may say, perhaps the real person didn't really register in other people's minds hence as soon as the pieces of existence cease to function anymore, the person cease to exist as well. When they don't know you well enough, they don't care enough to remember you're there.
One doesn't really get "remembered" as a person anymore. People do not forget your existence simply because you're there, not because they remember you. When you're not there, people treat it as if you don't exist anymore.
But I'm here.
The real me is really here even though I may not be online and I am far away from social contact.
I'm still here and I'm eternally glad for being remembered by some even though I'm not really there right in their face for them not to forget me.
I heard about this story of how a MapleStory gal supposedly faked her own death to cheat her online friends of godly items she wanted badly, because it's her "deathwish".
1)If I'm dying, I won't have time to include MapleStory in my deathwish if I happen to think of one.
2)What good does all these do if you're really dead?
3)However, this shows that when people die, others would probably remember him/her more and actually treat him/her much better than when he/she was alive simply because it's a habit to remember the dead, everything is now seen through rose tinted glasses and perhaps guilt and regrets.
I don't want to be remembered because I'm dead, I don't want to be not forgotten simply because I force my existence on people around me.
I want to be remembered for who I am now when I happen to be alive whether I am there or not, by people whom I will always remember whether dead or alive.
If I can't be remembered by anyone, as in really remembered, at least I want myself to then not remember anyone, because they're probably not worth it.

5 comments:

Wei Shi said...

I still remember Chee Chee! I still remember the red rock deli chips that I'm gonna bring back for you... Hehe, I'll be back in late June!
I'll be able to see cheesy's cute face very soon! :D

wenxin said...

hey zihui, juz wana share w you i finally got the chance to watch mamma mia tdy! Like it q alot (:

zihui said...

Weishi: Whee! Update us when u're back so we can go out tgt!

Wenxin: Whee! Haha I actually have the DVD, glad u like it cos i do very much =)

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