When she looks so much like her...

It's strange sometimes when you come across people who look alike but are completely unrelated. Years ago I know this person but has since been out of contact for a long while. She has a very unique look that i cannot easily forget. Might be the eyes, the nose or the lips, I don't know. Just that one of a kind look that you cannot find any resemblance in others. Or so I thought... until last week.

I was running a workshop and for some strange reasons I felt as if she is among the audience. Indeed, this lady (albeit a younger version) resembles her to the T... unless I put a microscope on her I wouldn't be able to tell that they aren't related. Even the body structure look alike, the way she stands, walks, posture etc. Can't believe it!

Theoretically speaking it is extremely possible for two unrelated persons to look identical, don't you think? Think about it, we have only two eyes with brows, two ears, one nose, one mouth, and a head of hair that has limited styling distinction apart from colour. Put all these components together and you can easily figure out that the permutation is not infinite.... 1 million at most? Since there are more than 1 billion chinese looking people in the world, it should then be very possible to find an identical (or similar) looking pair of people among 1000 or 2000?

For some reasons I fell into a whole slew of reminiscence about the past as a result of this encounter. But whatever it is life goes on...

When your life is like rut...

Face it, we never get to be happy every moment from birth to death. Those who claim that they do is simply lying... period. Sometimes we feel on top of the world, but sometimes we feel like beneath the ocean. At times we feel like a piece of useless rut only to be stepped upon. But is a rut really that useless?

When the weather is cold, a rut provides warmth to someone's feet. When the floor is wet, a rut provides the needed grip so oldies don't slip and fall. And outside my door, the rut makes sure the tiles are clean at home so my wife don't have to mop and re-mop each time we are home. Especially so now that she is close to delivering our 3rd child, she needs a break from all these chores. So... a rut isn't that useless afterall, or is it?

As the saying goes... there is a woman behind every successful man. Similarly... underneath every hero there is a rut like you and me. So when you think that you are like a rut at some point in your life, that is because you are doing something in service of others. To those others whom you serve, you are needed... even if you really feel like a rut.