Solitude

I used to have a website called Sharing Corner, one that I hand-coded in notepad using the html I learned back in university.

It's gone now, I think the service provider for the web space went under or something, I changed to blogspot when I started working anyway.

Elder son is learning html in his computer club at school, I thought of my Sharing Corner and all that hand-coded html, so I went and dug it up.

And oh dear, memories and nostalgia...

I used to have this section called Solitude, my online diary kind of thing, the predecessor of Scribble Pad really.

And I wrote a piece as the introduction to that section back in 2002, and here it is.

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I am a sentimental person

It's both a blessing and a curse

Many say that I am a sensitive person

But yet at times my ignorance is staggering

It is said that ignorance is bliss

To a certain extent I do agree

For sometimes what we don't know cannot hurt us

And at times the more we know the less happy we become

Like a concealed truth hidden from our knowledge

It does us no harm till we found out we'd been deceived

Or like the untainted minds of the children

So simple and pure and full of joys and happiness

Then again, nothing is of absolute certainty

As the world is ever changing

So is human being

Perhaps moderation is indeed the key

You see, I like to ponder the things in life

I believe we learn as we live

And I feel better and stronger and more complete

With every insight, knowledge and understanding I receive

I am ever searching for the kind

Who listens with the heart

And reaches with open mind

For that's how I do others

Those few I found have distanced somehow

Faded away after a season

Often without any reason

Perhaps that's how it's meant to be

I am no writer, nor am I a poet

But I like to express and to share the feelings inside

The sentiments, the thoughts, the emotions

All those special moments and instants in life

Within Solitude silently harbour

A song waiting for the right choir

A voice willing to share with those who linger

A soul wondering where next to wander

- CK -

15 June 2002

(edited 21 September 2004)

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