what a year 2012 has been haha

What makes this letter all the more heartbreaking is that Scott opens his last letter to his wife with the words “To my widow” Captain Robert Scott was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led expeditions to the Antarctic regions. In March 1912, Scott was on his way back from the South Pole in sub-zero, conditions. The three surviving members of his party were in their tent suffering from frostbite and malnutrition. The following words below are just a few excerpts from his last letter to his wife Kathleen before his death from the elements.

"To my widow. Dearest darling. It is not easy to write because of the cold – 70 degrees below zero and nothing but the shelter of our tent… We are in a very tight corner and I have doubts of pulling through. In our short lunch hours, I take advantage of a very small measure of warmth to write letters preparatory to a possible end. If anything happens to me, I should like you to know how much you have meant to me. I must write a little letter for the boy if time can be found to be read when he grows up. Dearest that you know I Cherish no sentimental rubbish about remarriage. When the right man comes to help you in life, you ought to be your happy self again. Make the boy interested in natural history if you can. It is better than games. Try to make him believe in a God; it is comforting.

Oh my dear, my dear, what dreams I had of his future and yet, oh my girl, I know you will face it stoically – your portrait and the boy’s will be found in my breast. What lots and lots I could tell you of this journey. What tales you would have for the boy, but, oh, what a price to pay. To forfeit the sight of your dear, dear face. I think the best chance has gone. We have decided not to kill ourselves but to fight it to the last for that depot but in the fighting there is a painless end so don’t worry.”


Interesting Fact: The letter (shown above) was found along with the three explorer’s bodies several months after their deaths and just 11 miles from their supply camp. Scott’s wife Kathleen remarried politician Edward Hilton Young in 1922 and became Baroness Kennet when he was ennobled in 1935. His son, then 3, went on to graduate from Trinity College, Cambridge and have a distinguished career in ornithology.

from http://listverse.com/2011/05/03/10-fascinating-last-letters-written/

"between saving lives by being in constant mortal peril and the ensuing sexual exhaustion, who has the time?"

from http://www.cracked.com/article_20157_the-6-most-aggressively-badass-things-done-by-pacifists.html


and completing every sentence that i happen to begin with "but the truth is", with "you are the weak, and i am the tyranny of evil men. but i'm trying real hard to be the shepherd here" hahahaha. can't get enough of badass statements lol.

of course, there's also always, "he who rides a tiger, cannot dismount." damn awesome.


also, read http://listverse.com/2012/12/23/10-non-peaceful-ways-we-keep-the-peace/, i think 5) is damn smart, and 3) is just damn classy of the British if the interpretation by the author is correct. "lay down your arms and make peace". damn. the future as a beautiful film was always appealing.

things are different, now (:

We had a death pact, and I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby in my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye.[27]

it has passion, it can be scary explosive, yet it can be resolved so calm cos we know each others' hearts (:

is because we are ppl who rly want for each other to have the best, for each other to be happy (:

if you told me to cry for you,
i could.
if you told me to die for you,
i would.
take a look at my face,
there's no price i won't pay.

to say these words to you

i love you :)

like dmitri, i will not die.