Sphere

the ever popular scifi writer Michael Crichton passed away today… RIP, Crichton.

I remember back in high school i read one of his books, Sphere, which was one of my favorites aside of light fluffy things like Baby Sitters Club and Sweet Valley Twins. yes, yes, i still read them back in 10th grade.

(this post contains SPOILERS from this book from this point on)

i read the summary again today and it kinda hits me. recently i’ve been tossing around the idea of will power… but not like “i’m going to go to the gym every day” type of will power. more like if you believe something is going to happen and you believe hard enough, then it will happen. that’s basically the gist of this book. in the end, the survivors found out that the mysterious machinery they found at the bottom of the sea has the power of making their thoughts come true. i’ve also read a similar story from this Japanese manga about a girl who was given a magical stone that allows her thought to materialize. her story ended pretty grim as in the end, her will power was not strong enough and she willed herself to death.

it’s a scary yet intriguing idea, isn’t it? lately, i’ve suspected that perhaps this is true to some degree in our lives. perhaps that if we just believe hard enough, or have enough faith on what we believe should happen, then life will go our ways? i thought that perhaps this is why some people always seem to have the best luck in the world and some people seem to always have the worst. perhaps it has nothing to do with karma. perhaps those with good luck simply have stronger will power.

i never really discussed / mentioned it to anyone since it’s not really a structured thought, but i really do feel like i keep running into this idea over and over again. it’s like someone is giving me a sign and trying to tell me that “yes, you are in the right path! keep going!”. but then it could just be my overactive mind telling me things again…

anyway, that’s just one of the things that crosses my mind each day. i think about weird things like this… sooo i’m not kidding when i said i have overactive mind / imagination!