Life's short... Cherish it...

Veronica Mars is very cool. This show seems more real to me cos the actors aren't as pretty or good-looking than those in other teenybopper shows. Look at Charmed, One Tree Hill, Smallville, Gilmore Girls, just to name a few. Ok, so Veronica Mars is hot as a 17 year old Nancy Drew. But the other characters aren't that amazing.

Ok, this post is long overdue actually. Finally, the Nickelback video Savin' Me!





I suggest watching the video first. Otherwise nothing u read in this post will make any sense at all. Once again, thanks to Ed for recommending this video and providing some blog fodder.

Reason why this video made quite an impact on me, apart from the fact that this song is pretty cool, is that the concept behind this video is rather interesting.

As u have seen, the guy talking on his cellphone (let's call him C) is saved from being crushed by a bus by a weird looking guy in a brown trenchcoat. After that, things start to go weird for C. Next thing he knows, he sees these countdown thingies on top of people's heads. If I were him, hell, I'd freak too. It's like being in that Michael J. Fox movie, The Frighteners. I mean, what if u went out one day, happy and busy with ur day's schedule, and u're saved by a good samaritian on the street, figuring that that was probably the biggest thing that would happen to u that day, and then boom! u're suddenly seeing funny countdowns above people's heads? U'd probably think u've gone nuts.

I think the saddest part was when the emergency personnel rushed into a building and wheeled an old lady into the ambulance. C watches, still filled with confusion as he struggles with this new reality of seeing things other people obviously couldn't see. As the old woman's timer counts down, her eyes finally close as the timer hits zero.

C walks along. He spots an African-American lady sitting by the fountain and stops to look at her. She turns around to smile at him, and (this part is so sweet) there's a countdown at her tummy too. Get it? She's pregnant!

Ok, so C goes along his merry way, bewildered by his new ability to see those countdown timers. He spots a lady who's obviously in a hurry (as so many people are) and watches as she goes to her car. The timer over her head reads 2 seconds. C rushes over to her and pulls out of harm's way as a huge piece of construction falls from the sky and turns the woman's car into a pile of scrap metal. Shocked (and probably thankful), she stares at her crushed car and turns to look at her saviour and suddenly, she's staggered to see countdown thingies on top of peoples' heads.

It's like u only realise how precious life is after u have a near-death experience. In the video, I guess it was represented by those countdown timers. I guess the lesson to learn here is that u have to recognise how short life is and u have to cherish it, every second of it.