I was watching “SEINFELD” the other night when something he said caught my attention. The ambivalence of having to chose the importance between the present and the future.

He said “I was in the drug store the other day trying to get a cold medication...Note easy. There's an entire wall of products you need. You stand there going, Well, this one is quick acting but this is long lasting... Which is more important, the present or the future?”

Not that it was hilarious but the question was made wittingly perplexing. To me, what distinguishes one from the other is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about. In pursuit of these dreams, there are of course things that we do not choose… We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live and love.

We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. Do we stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the FATE of devouring us?

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself...Any direction you choose.

Now back to the importance of the past, the present and the future. The difference between that when I SING a SONG and I have a SONG to SING is the difference between that of the present and the future. But when I SANG a SONG, would that make it the past or simply ‘SONGSANG’ ? Hmmm….

I do not sing to impress you nor do I do it for your listening pleasure. But if you do not have the dancing shoes to dance to my music, just stick to your purple page.


To Better Today, To Better Tomorrow…

Ziehan Forever.