"March of the penguins"

Go watch it before it close! And this is an order! Haha really, it is not exactly our normal idea of an enjoyable movie. In fact, at points it can be lame. It's basically, a documentary with narrators telling stories from the point of view of the emperor penguins. But it is really really beautiful.

The film traces how the emperor penguins journey to their mating grounds, and how they have to withstand quite a lot of challenge to procreate. It is amzaing, how in the extreme conditions, life still finds a way. In having to raise a new generation of young penguins, the penguins have to rely on teamwork, instincts that will lead them back to their meeting place in time. And they have to push their bodies to the limit in order that they and their yound can survive. It made me wonder, why we think we humans are so special. That only we have our knowledge, our own rituals, that only we have our social organization. That our idea of society is unique to human. That only we understand what relationship, bonding, family means. That only we have the ability to keep time and dates, to organize and to interact in meaningful ways. For all we know, we know no better. I think the documentary highlights this. That maybe at the end of the day, we are not much different from the emperor penguins.

Anyone who thinks your life sucks, go watch the documentary. It really makes one so amazed by the magic of life. It is really a miracle. Before we start bashing ourself, comparing ourself to others. I think the movie, revealed how improbable life is. How out of the infinite chances and probability that creatures may not survive. One slip up, one accident,wrong timing, and the baby dies. Reflecting back on ourselves, that we can be in this world as who we are today, is itself a miracle. Everyone one of us is perhaps, a one in a million chance. Yet we exist, shouldn't we be amazed by the beauty of this? That in the universe of infinte possibility, here we are. I am amazed.