One of Them

You deny them the chance to practice what they preach; yet you preach what you practice, and therefore you become one of them.

You don't realise it, but you are the very thing you despise.

Sooner or Later

Thomas the Apostle. When Jesus wanted to return to Judea, knowing that he would probably be murdered there, Thomas said to the others; “Let us also go there and we might die with him.” But Thomas was not remembered for this bravery. His claim to fame came later when he refuses to acknowledge the resurrection. He just couldn’t wrap his mind around it. The story goes that he needed to touch Jesus' wounds to be convinced.

— Jack Shephard: “So was he?”
— Ben Linus: “Of course he was. We’re all convinced sooner or later, Jack.”

I'm Gunna Burn Your Name Right Across the Sky...

So I never forget what the feeling's like.

Once

We were young and innocent, most of us not yet old enough to visit the Tav. We didn't have cars or access to computer labs, or money. We had no idea what to do with ourselves during our four hour breaks between lectures on the quiet Friday afternoons. So we sat, squashed onto an old, musty smelling couch in the common room, and we watched...

We watched all sorts of movies, ranging from Transformers to Juno, the Indiana Jones series to The 40 Year Old Virgin. But of all the movies, and all of the times we spent together on that couch, I will always remember the time we watched Once.

Once was one of Georgia's indie movies that none of us had ever heard of. And quite frankly, nothing happens in it. It's about some dude and some chick, who meet in Dublin and make some indie music together. That's pretty much it. There's literally a whole scene in which the chick takes her vacuum cleaner on a bus to a shop to get it repaired...

And as the movie ended, Alex made the comment which basically summed up the movie perfectly: "That movie did not have enough explosions in it"...

Despite Alex's cynicism, Once is a beautiful movie. Little does he know that I have hired it out and watched it on more than one occasion since our days of innocence. And it makes me so emotional every time, because the memories of sitting in that room with those people always come flooding back. Those were some of the best and happiest moments of my life, the kind I expect to see if my life ever flashes before my eyes.

To them, Once is the movie with not nearly enough explosions. To me, it is everything.

Setting Off Nuclear Bombs

If things were somehow different; if I had stepped left instead of right.
If one day I had decided to stay, instead of go out to see the world.
If the path I had been set on was that of someone else.
If I was taught to pray to a God that in this life I don't believe in.
Maybe, in some other life, things could have been so different.