why am i so anal about the minor discomforts of life?
i'd like to propose 2 general reactions to experience minor discomforts in everyday life: the accepting approach and the rejecting approach. by minor discomforts i refer to stuff like lousy weather, crappy rules, poorly designed structures - disappointing encounters which may or may not be typically ignored. generally non-life-threatening pecularities that could otherwise be rather easily improved upon (in my opinion).
accepting approach - "why bother complaining?" "it's not that bad, just tolerate lor." "that's normal what." "don't be so anal lar." "get over it. move on." this approach has various merits. its adopters need not spend any time or effort troubling themselves with whatever's "not really wrong anyway." purporters may appear "cool" and "unaffected," perhaps choosing to ignore what may be off their list of priorities. hence, such persons may also appear prioritised and wise.
rejecting approach - "why is this not fixed?" "it's such a simple detail - and they can't get it right." "so screwed up." "why don't you care?" "i can't believe i'm paying taxes for this." this approach seems unpopular. fierce advocates tend to be social critics with no social life - spending too much time trying to fix (or suggest strategies to improve )what may not even be broken. everything seems to be against them, and they appear stressed out over the most anal of things.
so why do i tend to take the latter approach more? there is a crucial variable that i omitted on purpose: knowledge. what if i choose the second approach based on knowledge? that i simply know something to be wrong whereas others simply do not know it? may seem a wimpish excuse to most who adopt the first approach, or may even seem like an insulting retort. but the next time i am anal about something, perhaps it isn't that i am taking the rejecting approach for the aim of being anal, but for the sake of improvements that acceptors can't be bothered with.
maybe i am not anal, just observant!
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but after deconstruction, is there meaning left?
rosary
double inverted commas
"you who seek deconstruction,
should also find reconstruction;
or risk contracting solipsism."
"i think too much, therefore i am too much."
"between love & hate, i choose between."
"there's a feeling that i have no feeling."
"we're not too energetic; you're too cynical."
"our differences are so similar
that our similarities start differing."
"after being deceived often enough,
the truth begins to hurt."
"we believe in fate to justify our fate."
"life is played too seriously;
love, seriously underplayed."
"our very existence is blasphemous."
"behold - the wisdom of relaxation."
"war: we have all been raped."
"where's the truth in faith?"
"when you're numb, all you'd feel is existence."
"respect the circle of judgement - you're next."
"nobody can logically be non-judgemental."
"tolerance gets you by until acceptance takes over."
"control, alternate, delegate."
"being beautiful only attracts ugly attention."
"do you verstehen?"
"predictably, humans are unpredictable."
"the only certainty in history is uncertainty;
the only uncertainty in history is certainty."
"human nature does not naturally exist in humans."
"socialisation is power."
"tolerate a half-truth today and you'll
be faced with a whole-lie tomorrow."
"behind each smile is a reason to look so happy."
"what drives us deprives us."
"what if society is god, and god is a puppet?"
"is it moral for one to moralise?"
"intellectual property is an oxymoron:
true knowledge is free."
"intellectual superiority is an oxymoron:
the truly wise know their inferiorities."
"if you say i'm creating meaning
aren't you doing the same for me?"
"war is the bastard child of patriotism."
"doubt requires belief in the contrary;
atheism is faith in godlessness."
"you are free to choose, whether you like it or not."
"teenage: when everything revolves around you.
maturity is the only cure."
"while playing that new RPG, you'll miss out
on the RPG of your life."
"hope makes joy possible.
faith makes love infinite."
"the depths of human existence are unfathomable."
"no label ever quite describes everything
- except maybe this one."
"when you see the end, the present becomes closer."
"instrumental rationality has no real instrumentality."
"i am an impact on the great big reality of everything."
"aren't most things the effect of some cause?"
"what's on the edge?
sharpness - the last subatomic particle."
"maybe i am, just so that you too, can be."
"my instincts are no longer able to save me
from today's predators."
"i'm different everyday; what difference does it make?"
"let me expressly express this expressively:
i'm not impressed by impressive impressions."
"i can be good if i know what being good can be."
"we are culturally, socially, intellectually unique;
yet existential duplicates."
"the wise need few words."
"you are free when you spend your time wisely."
"you who can treasure are already wealthy;
you who are wealthy should practice treasuring."
"i'd rather assume i'm wrong than claim to be right."
"success sucks the life out of us.
make sure your success is worth your life."
"philosophy without application is dead.
life without philosophy is dead physics."
"but truly, what is friendship
which blossoms not?"
"love is worth coming home to."
"there is a sweetness in the air we breathe;
but who cares?"
"can i do naught but give myself to eternity?"
should also find reconstruction;
or risk contracting solipsism."
"i think too much, therefore i am too much."
"between love & hate, i choose between."
"there's a feeling that i have no feeling."
"we're not too energetic; you're too cynical."
"our differences are so similar
that our similarities start differing."
"after being deceived often enough,
the truth begins to hurt."
"we believe in fate to justify our fate."
"life is played too seriously;
love, seriously underplayed."
"our very existence is blasphemous."
"behold - the wisdom of relaxation."
"war: we have all been raped."
"where's the truth in faith?"
"when you're numb, all you'd feel is existence."
"respect the circle of judgement - you're next."
"nobody can logically be non-judgemental."
"tolerance gets you by until acceptance takes over."
"control, alternate, delegate."
"being beautiful only attracts ugly attention."
"do you verstehen?"
"predictably, humans are unpredictable."
"the only certainty in history is uncertainty;
the only uncertainty in history is certainty."
"human nature does not naturally exist in humans."
"socialisation is power."
"tolerate a half-truth today and you'll
be faced with a whole-lie tomorrow."
"behind each smile is a reason to look so happy."
"what drives us deprives us."
"what if society is god, and god is a puppet?"
"is it moral for one to moralise?"
"intellectual property is an oxymoron:
true knowledge is free."
"intellectual superiority is an oxymoron:
the truly wise know their inferiorities."
"if you say i'm creating meaning
aren't you doing the same for me?"
"war is the bastard child of patriotism."
"doubt requires belief in the contrary;
atheism is faith in godlessness."
"you are free to choose, whether you like it or not."
"teenage: when everything revolves around you.
maturity is the only cure."
"while playing that new RPG, you'll miss out
on the RPG of your life."
"hope makes joy possible.
faith makes love infinite."
"the depths of human existence are unfathomable."
"no label ever quite describes everything
- except maybe this one."
"when you see the end, the present becomes closer."
"instrumental rationality has no real instrumentality."
"i am an impact on the great big reality of everything."
"aren't most things the effect of some cause?"
"what's on the edge?
sharpness - the last subatomic particle."
"maybe i am, just so that you too, can be."
"my instincts are no longer able to save me
from today's predators."
"i'm different everyday; what difference does it make?"
"let me expressly express this expressively:
i'm not impressed by impressive impressions."
"i can be good if i know what being good can be."
"we are culturally, socially, intellectually unique;
yet existential duplicates."
"the wise need few words."
"you are free when you spend your time wisely."
"you who can treasure are already wealthy;
you who are wealthy should practice treasuring."
"i'd rather assume i'm wrong than claim to be right."
"success sucks the life out of us.
make sure your success is worth your life."
"philosophy without application is dead.
life without philosophy is dead physics."
"but truly, what is friendship
which blossoms not?"
"love is worth coming home to."
"there is a sweetness in the air we breathe;
but who cares?"
"can i do naught but give myself to eternity?"
"righteousness, when actually lived out,
exudes a mythical air - and that's the Truth."
3 comments:
teresa*:
hello there... who the hell dare say you're anal? *punch* *bpx* *kick* cmon...i agree, you're observant!
hope the hols have started for you, if not its sooner or later la!
"I think too much, therefore I am too much"
The author of that quote was Tim Quigley from a poem he published back in 1994. If you are going to use that quote, please update your web pages presenting it with his credit.
Thank you.
never read the poem.
i just happened to think of it... call it spontaneous innovation.
btw i don't claim authorship to anything. just crappy verses that come to me.
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