Saturday, April 02, 2005

+ HaNg oN +

+ HaNg oN +

PS: Exam is coming... HANG ON everyone! I'm also hanging on!! It's gonna be over sOOn!!

Once upon a time, 2 friends went mountain climbing. Just as they were about to reach the summit, one of them lost his footing and slipped, causing the other one to lose his balance too! And they slipped off the edge of a cliff! But both of them managed to hold on to their piece of rope which luckily was already fastened firmly into the land by the one in front. But now they were just hanging in mid air, about 7 storeys above ground. So one was above the other holding the same piece of rope.

"Hang on!" the one above shouted to the one below. The only way to save themselves was to climb up with their hands. They had to save themselves, even though they were very tired already.

So, shouting words of encouragement to each other, both of them hanged on and climbed up the rope slowly, which was so tedious. Finally, after what seemed years, the one above finally climbed over the edge of the summit and arrived safely. He immediately pulled the rope up to help the one lower who was still climbing. And finally, both of them stood safely on the summit, taking in the breath-taking view of the beautiful area about them.

Moral of the story:
1) Everytime u get into a difficult situation which drain u so much, always HANG ON! Someone will be there to help u.
2) Even if no one helps u, u can still get out of it anyway, that's if u HANG ON!

In the same evening, these 2 friends prepared to go home. They decided to go down by another side which have landings in short distance, which seemed to be safer since it was getting dark. As usual, one of them climbed down first with the rope as a guide. When he finally reached the safe land, the other started to slimb down. Now it was real dark. They had miscalculated the time since this side of the mountain got darker faster than the other side. Suddenly, as Fate would have it, this guy slipped and fell quite a distance down before he grabbed the rope and stopped himself just on time. Once again he was hanging in mid air.

"AAAhhhhhh!!!" He was panicking now. It's bad enough that he slipped, now he couldn't even see in the total darkness, and he was grabbing the END of the rope! He held on with all his might and was very desperate now. The other guy at the landing kept shouting for him to jump down, saying that he would catch him. But he was very insecure, thinking the other guy couldn't even see him, how to catch him? And he refused to do anything except to fasten the rope to himself and hang on for dear life.

"Go look for help! I'm hanging on!!" He shouted to his friend. His friend had no choice but to go on down without him. But he lost his way on his way up with help and only managed to find his friend during daybreak. And he found his friend frozen to death, with his hands still tightly grasping the rope, hanging 2 metres above where they stood.

Moral of the story:
1) Everytime you fall, don't worry. Someone will always be there to catch you, even if it means crashing them to their death.
2) Even though there's a risk that that someone might miss catching u and you would still crash to your own death, it's always better than staying in your original position where it means CONFIRM DEAD.
3) You should always HANG ON in dire situations. But there are also times when you must know when to LET GO....

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