What's your "number 23"?

Geovanny 2021-10-22 14:31:57

Numbers 32:23
But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out.

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I woke up and it already pasted 2pm on my clock. Then the computer told me it was actually 3pm. Today is daytime saving day?

It has been a recent while since I found out my sleeping problem. Waking up this afternoon, I really wanted to do nothing. Well, I saw that DVD I borrowed Friday
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The movie is very graphic. For most scenes, one major color dominates the whole screen. There are mostly dense colors. My mind was often taken afar to some imaginary land. I've awaken my childhood memories and some fantasy consequent.

The world is changing so fast and ordinary ppl like you and me have no choice but try catching up. One day, you found your idol old; the other day, you were surprised that how much had changed in yourself.

What happened to those years when we were children, when we were supposed to be carefree, when we spent our time without realizing we'd grow up one day to see the reality?

They seemed so distant and fragmentary. Only some pieces are clear; other parts are obscure. Then at times when parents talked about our past. We got confused: "that really happened? Why I couldn't remember?" And then we told parents our version of story. They asked the same question, "why i couldn't remember".

The number 23 is real? Imaginary? Just a sick obsession? Or merely more than an outlet to get away from boredom? I'm not talking about the film; I am asking about your number 23.

We need to make so many choices in life. Most are easy and a few not. It is those a few that defines us.

Why you made that choice? What made you make that choice? What do you want for your life or what you are trying to get rid of? What makes you feel satisfied, safe and happy, and yet what makes you feel disturbed, worried and haunted?

Maybe it has all started when you got from your parents your number 23. You just haven't realized it, yet.

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Extended Reading
  • Kevon 2022-04-23 07:01:32

    One of Uncle Jim Carrey's most distinctive screen characters.

  • Ethan 2022-03-22 09:01:27

    Rarely confused ah ~!

The Number 23 quotes

  • Walter Sparrow: You're Topsy Kretts...

    Agatha Sparrow: [Flashback] He may not even be a man.

    [Present]

    Agatha Sparrow: Please don't make me do this...

    Walter Sparrow: Do what, Ag? Why'd you do this?

    [dumps out her purse]

    Walter Sparrow: Who am I LIVING WITH?

    Walter Sparrow: [finding a knife in her purse, laughing in disbelief] What's this for, Ag? What are you going to do with this?

    Agatha Sparrow: I... I took it to protect us. From... whoever we were going to meet at the mailbox facility.

    Walter Sparrow: Intending to kill that poor old man who you got to publish your book? To protect your little secret?

    Agatha Sparrow: [Flashback] I'll take care of it!

    Walter Sparrow: [Present] He was ALIVE before you sent us away!

    Agatha Sparrow: Robin will hear you.

    Walter Sparrow: Oh, we wouldn't want that, would we? We wouldn't want our son to know the horrible truth about his mother!

    Robin Sparrow: [walks in] Mom? Dad? What's going on?

    Walter Sparrow: She's Topsy Kretts; she wrote the book!

    Agatha Sparrow: No, it's not true. Now your father's going to put down the knife. Aren't you, Walter?

    Walter Sparrow: Tell him the truth.

    Agatha Sparrow: Walter...

    Walter Sparrow: Tell him... how you took the skeleton.

    Agatha Sparrow: Yes, Isaac and I took the skeleton...

    Robin Sparrow: You did?

    Agatha Sparrow: And I'd do it again! But I did not write the book.

    Walter Sparrow: Don't lie! 13 years. 13 years of lies! NO MORE!

    Agatha Sparrow: Don't do this to us, Walter!

    Robin Sparrow: Mom, who wrote the book?

    Walter Sparrow: Tell him who wrote it.

    Walter Sparrow: [whispering] Tell him.

    Agatha Sparrow: ...You wrote the book, Walter.

  • Walter Sparrow: Chapter 23. You can call me Fingerling. My real name is Walter. Walter Paul Sparrow. What you've read so far is not the whole truth. Much has been changed to protect the innocent... and the guilty. I once read that the only philosophical question that matters is whether or not to commit suicide. I guess that makes me a philosopher. You can say it was my inheritance. After my mother's death, my father couldn't cope. He didn't leave a note... just a number. That number followed me from foster home to foster home till college when I met her: Laura Tollins. I thought she'd help me forget my father's number. It was a mistake to think I could escape it. I loved her. And I thought she loved me. Until my father's number returned to haunt me. That fucking number... When I circled every 23rd letter of her note... it became clear. The number had gone after me. And now it wanted her. I was right. She was in danger. I just didn't realize the danger was me. What began as a suicide note, turned into something more. Much, much more.