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Musings on 96 (film)

Life happens between “what if” and “what is”. The chirping of winged angels at dawn wakes you up a tad too early. You’re jolted out of your dreams, but don’t have the heart to awaken into reality yet. In that chasm slip memories of yore. Some sweet, some sour. You look at your younger self with nostalgic yearning. Then, something hits you hard: the missed opportunities . What if in that critical crossroad of life you took a different path? What if you persisted a bit longer instead of yielding to circumstances? What if you had given up on that futile endeavour and focused on something worthwhile? But, that road is long gone. You can’t go back. You must wrestle with “what is”! The mind, stealthily, begins to rein the heart gone haywire and reasons: things could have been worse . Indeed, you second that; though amused. Could it be because man is a rationalizing animal and not the rational one we've prematurely assumed? Slowly, the mental fog is dispersed by the warm t

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