Dare you to move

Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
Everyone's here
Everyone's here
Everybody's watching you now
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next
What happens next

[Chorus]
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before

Welcome to the fallout
Welcome to resistance
The tension is here
Tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be

[Chorus]

Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go?
Salvation is here

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened before

A friend of mine introduced this song to me not long ago, it came into my mind quite frequent these days. It is an old song from Switchfoot, the band which also sang few songs in the movie, A Walk to Remember.

I like how it is mentioned in this song "everybody is watching you now", "everybody waits for you now" because this is really how life turns out to be. People are subjected to judgement by the norm based on every single opinion, action, perception, idea, thought of theirs. Under such circumstances, the old saying of "think before you act" is no longer ought to, but rather NEED to be applied strongly on every single waking hours of ours. 

clinging on to memories,

just because we are humans and we are emotionally wired that way.

Biologically, the red highlighted area is where our memory is being stored.

The hippocampus is a horse-shoe shaped area of the brain that plays an important role in consolidating information from short-term memory into long-term memory. It is part of the limbic system, a system associated with emotions and long-term memories. The hippocampus is involved in such complex processes as forming, organizing, and storing memories.

From time to time, if not most of our waking minute, we constantly find ourselves swimming through waves of memories. Good or bad, they can be easily triggered by familiar person, objects, scent, surroundings or sounds. 

A huge portion of our memories carry the objective of  increasing mankind's productiveness and efficacy. In other words, we remember(generate memory) for the sake of achieving a goal. It could be as simple as remembering shopping lists to memorizing solid facts. 

The irony of mankind, despite having such highly functional brain is that the brain tend to generate its own "fictitious" memories, in other words, there is a possibility that our brain "remembered" something that did not happen. This is mainly the reason why human memories are considered unreliable.

 

Memories, be it good or bad will always be an undefinable paradox. Sometimes they will come in handy. Yet most of the time we find ourselves in a constant battle with an unforeseen victory ahead, the battle between remembering and forgetting. Hence, we hold on to our memories even tighter, but without us realizing, losing them too.

bible verses

are the words of God for us, to guide us through our daily life, hard times and also good times.

As a born Christian, I have been thought since my Sunday school years to memorize important scriptures such as

John 3 : 16 "For God so loved the world, He gave His one and only son, and whoever who believes in Him shall have eternal life"

Of course there are many more that came along the way and most of the time important bible verses as such will come upon familiar during sermons. I have always been trying to learn God's word by heart but this is certainly not an easy feat, considering the fact that there are 27 books in the New Testament; 39 books in the Old Testament. There are a total number of 22,485 verses in the Old Testament; while there are 7,957 verses in the New Testament. 

Some people will say, where there is a will, there is a way. This is certainly true.

Few months back I found a few bible verses that belongs to me. I do not think that this happened by coincidence, but just so happen these couple of meaningful verses coincide with my date of birth(1304). Hence, these are indeed my bible verses.

Philippians 4 : 13 "I can do all things in Christ who gives me strength"

1 Corinthians 13 : 4 " Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

These verses will come by useful during difficult and good times. When I need God to empower me or when I can give my praises to God for all the good things He had done.

I am sure that everyone has their own scriptures that are meant for them. So, what is yours?