“Its hard but before you speak, think: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?…” – Social Hermit It’s probably generally a good idea to ask these questions before opening your mouth. And yes, I do realize this is some idealistic paradigm but hey…I do think the idealistic gives us imperfect beings something … Continue reading »
How Monsters Are Made
In almost every mythical or fairytale story, there are wonderful circumstances surrounding the birth of the protagonist- some magic dust, some sun ray dropping on the foot of a goat, some weirdly shaped moon. Great stuff like that. The antithesis is hardly as grand. More common. More considered…more pragmatic. But that’s just fictitious jibber-jabber, yes? … Continue reading »
The Job Theory
“….sometime later, while Job’s children were having one of their parties at the home of the oldest son, a messenger came to job and said, ‘The oxen were ploughing and the donkeys grazing in the field next to us when the Sabeans attacked. They stole the animals and killed the field hands. I’m the only … Continue reading »
Bubbles
I think it’s rather amazing how we live in tiny, tiny bubbles. How we manage to exist on vast arrays of compartmentalized realities and are totally convinced of our exposure and awareness of the bigger world when in fact, what we know is but an infinitesimal fragment of obscure-ness. Have you ever had an epiphany, … Continue reading »
The Friendship Equation
Bonjour, tout le monde! I’ve had a very interesting few weeks, explaining (not really, actually) why I’ve been silent. Oh, and thanks to Big Mo for reminding me that the cobwebs on the blog are rather unbecoming. I’ll try do be a little more consistent with it, hence forth….probably set up a timetable of sorts or something. … Continue reading »
Time To Move On
At some point, you have to start taking yourself seriously. There’s really no time any more to keep sitting on that hedonistic couch you bought for yourself a while ago. Things are really getting to a point where you’ve become that ‘big cousin’ you talked about when you were younger, the one who still wants to believe that they’re still … Continue reading »
Responsibility of Secrets
I think one major difference (asides from the obvious physiological, of course) between kids and adults is the awareness of others. I’ll put up a post about that soon, so I’ll skip the background information. Today’s post is really something that has been on my mind for a while. It’s about the power and responsibility … Continue reading »