Drown & Suffocated In the Beauty – Last Day of My Second First Year

Pictures first.

@North Marine Drive.

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The scenery was stunningly beautiful. So amazing that I started to feel restless. The feeling was like someone walking from the world of 1984 and directly to the Brand New World. One can easily get drown and suffocated in this kind of beauty. Harmless as it seems, it can destroy you piece by piece, not by forcing you to bend to life, but taking away all your ambitions, dreams, pain, struggles, fears, watchfulness, judgements, and restlessness away without notice. A 19 years old person can be turned into a 90 years old. At a blink. Everyone is equal faced with such beauty. And ambitions are equal. Dreams are equal. All kinds of pain are equal as watchfulnesses are. Judgements are. Restlessness are equal, or gone. And then you’re gone too.

Half of me was enjoying, and half of the self was trembling. A sense of belongingness took charge of me easily. I had to remind myself really hard what kind of world we actually live in. It was too beautiful that it did not look like reality anymore. Or rather, it was not reality. Not real reality. Pure beautifulness can never be the reality. When the light is too shiny and it makes one blind, it is even worse than complete darkness. It fools you into believing that the world should be like this. It fools you into believing the world should just be like this. But no. No. No.

Never turn off the alarm.

Author: Mandy Chen

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