So here I am
once more
Back home
after 5 grueling weeks
in Hong Kong.
Alone and miserable in
Hong Kong
Alone and miserable in
Singapore.
Stuck in a long distance relationship
with an absentee girlfriend,
Coming back home
to a dying father.
I begin to think
about
SEX, DEATH, RELIGION.
Humans are naturally
driven
to have sex.
It is our primal instincts
and the reason being,
like in all living things,
to perpetuate
our species.
We want to reproduce
because it gives us
this sense of perpetuity.
Our biology is geared
towards attaining perpepuity.
Perpetuity in the form
of passing our genetic material
to the next generation,
and hopefully,
it goes on and on.
Asian races even have
a hangup about having sons
instead of daughters
so as to
"carry the family name".
True, many of us want to have sex
without having kids or
pass on our genetic material.
That is just social evolution
dictating
our social behaviour.
I'm referring to the psychology
behind the biology.
Inherently,
we fear death.
We do not want to die
or at least
live to a "ripe old age".
I've seen the terminally sick and elderly
in hospitals
who cling on to life
whilst suffering everyday,
like as though tomorrow
will be a better day.
Why not die?
Again, it is against
our biological makeup
to want to die.
When you see people dying
in a drowning incident,
you see the tremendous struggle
to stay alive.
When we are put,
in a potentiall fatal situation,
like a close shave from
a car accident,
we always get
traumatised
by the shock
of facing possible death.
We are biologically hardwired
to want to live
for as long
as we can
I suspect
it has to do
with perpetuating
our species.
Suicide cases
are psychology going ahead
of biology.
Why then,
is the appeal
of global religions?
Notice that all religions
promise
one form of life or the other
after death.
Therein lies
the appeal,
the promise
of perpetuity.
It is even a booming business
to sell products
promising youthful good looks,
the illusion of perpetuity.
In that aspect,
religion
is just a big jar
of FANCL TENSE UP
or Eu Yan San bird nest
with collagen.
All in the business
of perpetuity.
My guess is
I will feel equally good
just having sex,
lots of sex.
