May 26, 2008

Forty-one!


"Life is sweetest before the feelings are awake - until one learns to know joy and pain."

-Sophocles



Thanks, J;*

23 comments:

haj said...

ur welcome ;)

Amethyst said...

Haj
;*

Silver said...

Can't say i agree. It's better when you feel both pain and joy than if you feel nothing at all and feeling indifferent. It's like you're not even living. Thats no fun;p

Big Pearls said...

life is a mixture of feelings..

Anonymous said...

it then becomes bitter sweet...?!!

I'm sort of trying to be philosohpical... lol...

frogman said...

i have a feeling i understood it differently than everyone else..

i thought he meant that life is sweet before the feelings are awake, but once they are awake the sweetness disappears until you learn joy and pain.. :)

Amethyst said...

Silver
You're not really indifferent before you know joy and pain..

Big Pearls
It is:)

Hamitaf La B.
Possibly..

Don't be sorry, it's a free world;)

Frogman
It's okay to interpret things differently.

Here's how I understood it:
Life is all good until your feelings are awakened by knowing pain, and when you know pain, you understand what real joy is:)

FourMe said...

I LOVE the pic!

FourMe said...

momkin abog'ha ? :p

Squirreliya said...

loved how it can be understood differently..

Amethyst said...

Fourme
Beautiful isn't it?

Yeah, bogay 3ala ra7tech.. Remember what it says over the comment box;)

Squirreliya
Yeah, that's why it's there. Maybe people will realize that it's okay to have different interpretations along with different points of view;)

FourMe said...

Absolutely!

merci mon cheri :*

Amethyst said...

Fourme
Np;)

nQ said...

baaiihhh @@ 3annhom my feelings ma gamaw! khaleehom yakhmidoon.

Amethyst said...

nQ
EXACTLY!

asameee said...

that's how you appreciate life dear..

Amethyst said...

Nyxxie
Seems like the opposite to me;)

Âme said...

42 and we get all the answers..

About the saying.. it simply means there is no superlative for life in terms of sweetness.

Joy and pain are relative terms and the kind of perception of one defines the other.

There is a saying i remember.. "An ideal man is a man who is untouched by joy and sorrow"

Ofcourse ideal is unreal.

~ Soul

Amethyst said...

Soul
I agree.

Ideal is so unreal!

Manutdfanatic said...

I like how there are so many different ways to interpret this.

Very true that joy is all the more magnified when one's been through pain. Very true that life is indeed blissfully sweet when one hasn't. And equally true that one's feelings are in a slumber of sorts; that they never really do awaken until good old joy and sardonic pain comes along.

^Bittersweet; perfect word.

Amethyst said...

Manutdfanatic
All very true. Glad someone finally described it that way:)

محمد اليتامى said...

Nice Blog :)

Good Luck

Amethyst said...

Mohammed
Thanks:)