Saturday, 12 November 2011

The Fuuny Thing About Human Beings

A man asked my friend Jaime Cohen: " What is the human being's funniest characteristic?"
Cohen said: " Our contradictoriness. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future and we neglect the present, and thus experience neither present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and we die as if we had never lived."
Excerpt from Like the flowing River- Paulo Coelho
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5 comments:

  1. Muhammad Sufyan Ramish15 November 2011 at 09:14

    Nice , i totally agree :)

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  2. Jad16 November 2011 at 02:27

    woah .. impressive quote! " We think so much about the future and we neglect the present, and thus experience neither present nor the future. " ... true that! One should care for the future but should never let go of what they have right now.. cuz once it passes away.. its PAST!

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  3. Sa.Z22 November 2011 at 06:13

    So true...We forget to live for present.thats we should try to learn..

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  4. T Durrani27 November 2011 at 12:30

    Sheer brilliance.

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  5. zohaiЯ16 December 2011 at 05:00

    loved the excerpt. How many times do we find ourselves asking the question "Where is the time flying??"

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