Do you exist?

Parents do not give you life... parents simply reproduce... and the off springs continue the processes of living. Processes of living: metabolism, reproduction, animation... and who says there is Life, inherently, that is passed from parent to child? Parents combine their genes (molecules) to form a new combined molecule that grows into an adult. Who says that parents give Life or transferred Life to the child? Where is the evidence that parents transferred Life?

You can say that you are alive but you cannot say that you have life. If you have life, where is it? Where is this life that you imagined that you have? When you die, the conditions that is necessary for living fails and the process of living stops. Where is Life in living and dying? Nowhere. Nowhere because Life in you does not exists.

The Lee Kuan Yew comments on how with more than one and a half million US dollars, he together with Singapore ministers and their family might suffer unless their salaries are increased, should fill one with pity for the man.

The Lee Kuan Yew we know through the years, it would seem is slowly disappearing with age. One could conclude reasonably that it is due to "old age" that he made the comments and made it in such a manner. With each passing year, the young man that we had come to know is becoming old and the Lee Kuan Yew that we knew is slowly coming to a stop.

Does that not suggests that we are but our brains? That with the deterioration of of our brains, we deteriorate? If we deteriorate with the deterioration of our brains, how can we say that we are more than our brains? How can we say that there is an I that exists outside the molecular structures of brain cells?

Where is the Lee Kuan Yew that we suppose is existing metaphysically? If there is a Lee Kuan Yew that exists outside his brain cells, how is it that the evidence shows that a decline of the "I" naturally follows a decline of brains cells and brain functions?

How is it that the Lee Kuan Yew of old is not as sharp as the Lee Kuan Yew of young? If there is an "I" outside the structures of brain cells, will not the deterioration of brain cells have no effect on the "I"?

Isn't it pitiful that an old man like that cannot seem to be able to let go? I wish I can meet the man and tell him that I enjoy keeping fishes and derives great pleasure from this pastime but with a catch. My fishes do not cost thousands of dollars and are not kept in an aquarium costing tens of thousands of dollars.

I go to the aquarium owner and ask to buy a dollar of "feeder fish" Live fish that is meant to be food for bigger fish. I like to think I rescued them, hahahaha, like the way I try to prevent "small fry" from gambling at the casino.

I house my fishes in a plastic container that I picked up and washed. It was the perfect size for the slot of space in the garden trough among the plants. Someone happened to throw it away in an open space and because I could not find one with the correct dimensions to buy, I picked it up.

I was going shop to shop to buy a plastic container with the correct dimensions and was getting irritated with my lack of success and lo and behold, there it was, simply lying on the ground waiting for me to pick it up. A container lying on the grass with the perfect dimensions I was looking for, give or take a couple of millimeters. I believe in serendipity.

In my garden trough, there is a Pomegranate tree with adorable flowers and fruits and a 50 year old Jasmine plant that when it blooms, the Jasmine flowers give off a heavenly fragrance. I decided to keep fish to have an "ecology" going.

The dirty fish water is the perfect organic fertilizer and when the fishes die I feed them to the conical shaped snails living in the dirt. Every time I need a little bit of chili I pluck one off the chili bush.

I like to think that I am, *if not enjoying my fishes more than those keeping fishes costing hundreds if not thousands of dollars* at least enjoying my "precious" fishes as much as those people. I derive great pleasure daily from keeping my fishes, period. I certainly do not enjoy my fishes because the value of the fishes I keep is pegged to the value of the top ten most expensive fishes in the world. Neither do I care if people keeping thousand dollars fishes enjoy them as much as I do or more.

My wife complains that the first thing I do when I go home is to greet and feed my fishes and not her. She complains that I do not greet her first, not that I do not feed her first.

I think that the Lee Kuan Yew "suffering ministers" comment is a warning that we are looking at the beginning of the end of the man. Whether or not you consider the man "Great" it is a tragedy to see his decline in full public view. Old people should be allowed to grow old gracefully with close friends and family in attendance. Be prepared for the eventuality that seems to be approaching sooner rather than later. Ladies and Gentlemen, place your bets.