one significant person once told me that i am naive. was i shocked. i could not believe what crashed into my eardrums. i thought i was just too dense to get it. perhaps being dense is naivety to the highest level. i have no idea. but what i am quite sure at this very moment is that i just don't get some people who seem to be happy at making other people's lives (MY LIFE , actually and those have to be in capital letters though i want it appear less obvious) unhappy. why can't they just tell you ( I mean, me: the open and close parentheses here signify discreetness) straight to your blank face what in the world they really want from you! for sure, not all people are born fortune tellers ( and that's with a resounding: helloooooo!@#@?) or maybe life is a guessing game. guess 'till you freeze. how's that? am i born in this planet to figure out things everyday of my life until eternity? i need another palm reader to foretell my destiny, anyone?
isn't it that gift of knowledge is ought to be shared for humanity's advantage? so the unlearned may learn..or maybe the adage that i once read in a chamomile-flavored herbal tea box that goes: "Knowledge is power" has motivated others to gain knowledge, more and more of it every step of the way, because that would mean more power for them. what power? power to dominate over the weak, the stupid, the ignorant? power to spawn some disease called intellectual arrogance?
i am now beginning to believe that in the greatest scheme of things called universe, everything is really, really complex. i used to think it's just complex (that comes with a shoulders' shrug), not something really, really complex because with the former there are no-brainer easy chicken ways to weather the complexities of things. case in point: if i were a waitress, and you are a VIP diner and your order a steak which is cooked with 1/2 cup soy sauce , 1 clove garlic (mashed) 1/2 cup water,1/4 cup salad oil, 2 md. green peppers (thinly sliced), 1 md. onion( also thinly sliced), 5 stalks celery (again, thinly sliced), 1 tbsp. cornstarch and 1/2 cup water, 2 tomatoes (cut into wedges), and serve over a hot java steamed rice . well, it sounds complex but i can figure it out because you've told me exactly what you want in your steak. little did i know that such kind of situation can become really, really complex---that is, if you want a Chinese pepper steak, which is not in our menu and you want the beef fresh from China and you and I happen to be in a steak house in Iqaluit, Canada; and that type of things happen all the time!
whatever happened to the old saying: "Be kind to animals" that i used to read in my grandma's apple lemon pomegranate rooibos tea box? did it go down with the trash loading the drain?
in this world, i only have lots of questions. but no answers.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
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