“Normal is overrated.”

I forgot since when I heard a very wise words from a monk. 

He said : 

 " 感动往往都是一时的，所以要学习如何去把那一瞬间的感动变成永远。" 

Just FYI, I was crying like shiit at that time and that's why I remember it until now. In my own interpretation, I would say : 

" When you are moved by a movie, your feeling at that particular moment macam an exponentially decay graph." 

That's why I am blogging now, as I am trying to preserve that feeling. 

Just went for a movie session with friends in PUMA and watched a movie "Soul Surfer". 

It is about a girl who loves surfing so so much but lost her arm in a shark attack.

The girl is incredibly brave. When she got bitten by the shark, she didn't get panic or scream but just stay calm and do nothing. You may say she was just stunned, but I choose to interpret in another way. Who can possibly so calm when something bad strikes all of a sudden? When she woke up from coma, she asked when she can goes back to sea and surf again. If such person do really exist, she is much braver than a lion. 

“I don’t need easy.  I just need possible." 

This is what her friends in church said to her. "I don’t know why bad things happen to us sometimes but I have to believe something good is going to come out of this. I don’t know what that is. I really wish I did."

When she first gave up after some obstacles, her dad didn't want to give up on her and said : "If she gives up, she will never get back into the water and she will never be the same." 

However her mother said : "You can’t just fix everything just by shear will..".  

It made me thinks about roles of family members. There is always someone who hoped you to endure difficulties and hold on while another one who hoped you to give up and stop the pain. 

She and her family are always positive towards life, and grateful on what they have currently, like her father said : "You didn’t lose everything Bethany, not even close. That shark didn’t kill you, you’re here, you’re alive, you have your family." Her family is truly amazing. 

“When you get in the Impact Zone, get back up because you never know what’s over the next wave.” 

She lost an arm but she gets more influence than you ever imagined.