Friday Five-- a nice little collection

I abandoned the weekly "Friday Five" on my Grab blog a long time ago-- I think it's been about a year. Back then, they were pretty simple questions to answer, most took only a sentence or two. And the fun part was when friends commented, for each answered the five questions in the comments section. Hilarity often ensued, especially with the more risque questions ;-) But interest waned as one by one, people abandoned the site, and so I gave up trying to keep the "weekly tradition" up.

The Friday Five community, however, is still alive and well out there and I decided to finally take a peek and answer one of the sets of questions I found interesting and a little more thought-provoking than "What's your favorite color?"

And so, here it is-- a mini-survey of sorts, ringing in Friday with... the Friday Five!

1. What song would you sing to your newborn child? (OR if you already had a child, which song did you sing to him/her?)

The usual classic lullabies. But I always hated the original "Rock-a-bye Baby"-- I mean come on, who puts cradles in trees, and why the hell would you want to sing about the poor kid falling from it!? So, I made up my own verse:

Rock-a-bye baby in Mommy's arms
While Mommy's singing, baby nods off
When Mommy's finished, baby's asleep
Good night, my darling, and pleasant dreams

There... isn't that a much nicer visual than a plummeting cradle with baby in it?

2. How do you think animals think? (i.e. in animal language, human language, etc.)

I am convinced they think we humans are crazy, for one. I'm sure they wonder why we make such a big fuss over all kinds of things in our lives. It's really pretty simple: eat, sleep, play, stay warm, stay safe. As far as languages go-- each has their own (haven't we all listened to dolphins squeaking at each other underwater?), but since we can train animals to respond to commands, they have some ability to pick up bits of a "foreign" language ;-)

3. As a child, did you have a dream to make a difference in the world? Can you describe your dream?

Not really. Quite honestly, I think "making a difference in the world" is far too lofty for most kids to even be able to think about. There ARE some young, precocious children who are aware of that concept, but most likely it's because they learned it from their parents. I dreamed of what kids usually dream about: being rich and famous, or working with animals, or having a little family and playing house, etc...

4. Do you believe in God/a Higher Being?

Absolutely. There are far too many marvels in the world, and its existence alone is too precise for it to all have come out of nothing or random chance. One thing I never understood is the conflict between science and faith. To me, they aren't contradictory, they are complementary-- science is just a way to study and understand God's creations-- within the limits of our own human minds, of course.

Have you ever seen the Simpsons episode where Lisa creates a tiny world in a petri dish? Its inhabitants regard her as their "God". Everything they know of their world is contained in that petri dish, and they hail Lisa as the creator of everything in that world. Silly cartoon? Maybe. But I find it a pretty good analogy to our own world-- there's a vast amount of stuff we don't understand/aren't aware of. Our own perspective of the world around us is pretty limited, and though we may never arrive at all the answers, they ARE out there-- and science is one means of figuring things out.

5. Do you believe in aliens?

This kind of relates to the previous question. As vast as this universe is, it stands to reason that we aren't the only forms of life around. After all, Lisa Simpson could easily create another petri dish flourishing with life, right? ;-) So... yes... I don't think we are alone in this universe.

... and btw, my favorite color is orange. Followed closely by purple.

(originally posted at: http://www.myspace.com/hellykwee/blog/376997266)