Went to watch The Other Boleyn Girl with FK last Tuesday. Was rather surprised that it's based on some history facts, so I went digging about what is fact, and what is not. Read about King Henry VIII who was the king featured in the movie. I remember there was one cruel King Henry, he was the one.

Anyway, it landed with an interesting discussion with FK about kings. How we commoners - or rather myself - tend to have a higher expectation for the royalty, and forget that they too are humans, prone to make mistakes. Yet cliche as it is from the Spiderman movie, with great power comes great responsibility. I just feel it is wrong for royalty to go about doing immoral mistakes that involve stealing someone's wife, killing and being unjust.

Sigh... Human history can be so sad sometimes. Think about all the wars, all the injustice. Human is just so imperfect, that it is beyond human nature to be able to rule.

But when they said, "Give us a king to lead us," this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD. And the LORD told him: "Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king. As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you. Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do." 1 Sam 8:6-9

To those interested, you may read more in 1 Sam 8 to find out how the first king was installed over Israel - God's Chosen Nation, Whom He rules over. Yet the people chose another mortal being, like themselves, to be their mortal king. Of course, God knew the terrible things that awaited them...