Tuesday, 27 May 2014

I'm the soul



Cassandra Clare once wrote "Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy. all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside."
After reading Clare's words I could not help not to think further. Are we our bodies or our souls? Am I a soul? Is this body I'm stuck in is just a container? I started to think of everything I have learned; didn't god create Adam's body before he placed his soul? However his body did not move, it laid down for days with no actual movement or a single thought, till god slotted in the soul, the body was more likely dead! Once the soul leave the body, the body is no longer active, just after a second that it leaves it, that vigorous body would lay down hopelessly with no sight of life.  Furthermore, we can basically point at everything we contain but not the soul. We have no idea where is the place of our soul. We can't point at a specific place and say "Hey, this is my soul!" . my philosophy did not stop at that, we always say, "it touched my heart" or " it broke my heart" , though our heart is just an organ , with these kind of terms we actually mean our souls without us noticing,  but how can that mean we are the soul not the body? It's because in no matter what body we were placed in, we would have the same feelings, the same thoughts, the same ideas, yet different shape, different container. Evil or good, bad or nice..it's the soul not the body, it's us. The soul. These bodies are from god, keep them safe, take care of them because at a certain time, you will have to return it back. Remember that you are the soul that god blew, never forget how valuable you are.

1 comment:

  1. Not related, but it reminded me of my answer http://ask.fm/messy047/answer/67843484122

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