Choices…

Watched a movie in HBO yesterday night. Titled Life Support, a story inspiried by a black HIV positive woman in US named Ana (as in the film), who goes around with luggage bag of condoms and going around to pass to people to encourage safe sex and educating people about HIV. It shows how a human spirit can really do wonders, for when you faced with an incurable sickness, do you fight for your and live it to the fullest or you will just wait for time to come and take it as a death sentance.

This woman shown in the film crippled as the virus has invaded her left leg and its causing numbness and pain, which kinda remind me of my mom when she was going thru chemotherapy. So last night was kinda emotional from me, looking how the lady in the film, walking from place to place just to fulfill her promise to her daugther. Like mom, there were times that she insist that she goes to the treatment even when she knows her legs are quite numb, cos she felt that she will be a burden to the family if everytime we have to accompany to the hospital. It was only when she started to lose strength on her legs that she spilled out that she was a burden to the family. Thinking of it still brings back sad memories. How time has passed so fast and i am still very much miss her. So yup, life does have its choices even at times when you feel cornered, even Helen Keller, the lady who was a blind, mute, and deaf when she was 2. Was still able to live a life full of knowledge and positivity and bringing hope to people all around.

I very much like this quote by sensei about art. Here goes:

“Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.”

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