poor regine..?

yesterday the velasquez "clan" went to tarlac. we went to the wake of tita claring. we hired a van and driver to take us there and drive us home. the trip was ok.. i had fun chatting with cousins dom, ta & gabo.

anyway, when we got to tarlac, it was quite hot. there really wasn't much to do. we (the younger ones) didn't know our relatives too well.. and the "growner-ups" were chatting the day away. so i got this book from the shelf - dean koontz' book, "door to december" and started reading it.

needless to say, i had to bring the book home (i was only 4/5 of the way through with it when we finally had to leave) 'coz i never could stop reading a novel without finding out the ending. anyway, i was able to finish the book before sleeping last night.. so i was kinda happy :p

the story was fairly simple.. but i liked it just the same. it was about this 9-year old girl who was experimented upon by a group of psychologists/occultists/scientists. they wanted to train her to tap into her psychic abilities so that she may perform astral travel, telekinesis and all sorts of stuff. but they got a lot more than they bargained for when finally she succeeded to do what they wanted her to do.

anyway, the story fascinated me. it's kinda scary to think that our minds can be so easily manipulated. it's even scarier to imagine what could happen, should unscrupulous people unleash the reined-in powers of the human mind. melanie (that's the 9-year old kid in the story) was at least able to fight back - with a vengeance!! but regine.. ahhh.. poor regine. to have been an unwitting victim in all the sick experimentation..

then again, among all the characters in the book, only she was at peace in the end. no fear. none at all. hmmm.

so the question to ponder is this: whose mind is sick and whose is not? and who determines the correctness of the answer to this question? and if you were in regine's place.. which kind of sickness would you choose..?

[can't relate? read the story.. hehehehe]