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Thursday, July 08, 2004 Indeed life is a tragedy full of joy. We are born, strive mightily to achieve great ends, love deeply, suffer pain bravely - and for what? The irony of our human fate is that which has given us greatest joy when it is present, gives us greatest pain when it is absent. Without the joy of life, there is no tragedy in death. Life, I conclude, is a tragedy full of joy. My life is in a mess now. My joy has been filled with dissappointment which i bring about to people around me - to those who cared and those who think they cared. However the biggest disppointment now is that i feel so useless. Other than the joy that i can bring about to myself, i feel useless in giving and bringing joy to other people around. To love deeply can bring about the biggest dissapointment. Being unable to achieve my expectation of my work is equally bad. Well what a positive man i'm now. What i feared so much has indeed happened. I feared the fear of giving up everything. Losing the spirit to fight will meant a very certain death. From Ernest Gaine's novel, A Lesson Before Dying, it is the tragic story of Jefferson, a young black man in the South of the 1940's falsely accused of murder and sentenced to the electric chair. The young man's god-mother who had raised him, bitterly accepts his fate but wants him to face his execution like a man. He is unlearned, barely articulate, and without hope. She finally persuades Grant, another young black man - a teacher - to visit him and teach him a "lesson before dying," that he might face his fate with dignity. While Grant is hesitant and resists such a responsibility, he takes it on. There are some fascinating encounters with the local preacher who is more concerned with Jefferson's soul after death, than his spirit during life. Gradually Jefferson discovers the joy in reading and writing - rejoices that there are those who care about him - begins to discover who he is - a person with what Martin Luther King, Jr., would call "somebodiness." He dies with courage and dignity. I guess it will be too shameless to die without a fight, I guess i just need to get my direction right again. jjia leaving skool at 9:04 PM ***
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 Name: jjia Gender: Guy Date of birth: 25th Dec 1986 Skools Attended: Anglican High School Temasek Junior College National University of Singapore ICQ: MSN : cutesim_2000@hotmail.com 
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