Saturday, March 25, 2006
i am a kid. i admit it. many times i fail to comprehend the way life works and things people do. there are so many reasons behind a certain action or pattern and i acknowledge that. and that complicates life.
acknowledging the ambiguities that life presents is more difficult than it seems. acknowledging is not merely an act. it has its effects just like pehaps the butterfly effect. soon your perceptions start to falter and you start questioning if you really understand the basis of the way things work.
for example. in life there are many uglies. such as the ugly side of humans the ugly side of the environment the ugly side of the food chain etc etc. and sometimes these 'uglies' make you feel really depressed. and we become disgruntled with the people around us and the things that happen around us.. but then to think of it again... whose fault is it really? perhaps the whole emotional tidal wave that we're feeling was initiated by no one else but yours truly. is it out fault that we feel inclined to acknowledge the ugly? or does the fault lie solely in the pepetrators of the ugly? as i type this i feel this surge of guilt . not only towards myself but others. and i cant quite elaborate furthur. ( i need to start writing again) . do you feel the same as i do?
i mean humans are a weird lot. we selectively choose what we want to conciously acknowledge. the knowledge that makes us feel uncomfortable we can comfortably deny. just take our eating habits as an example. kfc burger king. blah blah blah .. meat products we consume. we feel no guilt , we do it with ease , we appear to be oblivious to the source of these food. how these animals were captivaed and killed ,the cruelty involved and such.. and yet we cringe and weep when we see animals being killed for their skins and such...we even get into heated debates or become the poetically angsty when we talk about animal rights and stuff.. i mean are we not hypocritical or what?and after all that was said and done. after all the tears and the waves of emotion felt.. we settle for peace over a finger licking good meal of kentucky fried chicken.
in the same way do we acknowledge only the noble we wish to see in us and underacknowledge the menace within every single one of us?
life is such a complex matter. in which we have only lived that much of and have the rest of our lives to understand and comprehend and hopefully simplify. or not.
acknowledging the ambiguities that life presents is more difficult than it seems. acknowledging is not merely an act. it has its effects just like pehaps the butterfly effect. soon your perceptions start to falter and you start questioning if you really understand the basis of the way things work.
for example. in life there are many uglies. such as the ugly side of humans the ugly side of the environment the ugly side of the food chain etc etc. and sometimes these 'uglies' make you feel really depressed. and we become disgruntled with the people around us and the things that happen around us.. but then to think of it again... whose fault is it really? perhaps the whole emotional tidal wave that we're feeling was initiated by no one else but yours truly. is it out fault that we feel inclined to acknowledge the ugly? or does the fault lie solely in the pepetrators of the ugly? as i type this i feel this surge of guilt . not only towards myself but others. and i cant quite elaborate furthur. ( i need to start writing again) . do you feel the same as i do?
i mean humans are a weird lot. we selectively choose what we want to conciously acknowledge. the knowledge that makes us feel uncomfortable we can comfortably deny. just take our eating habits as an example. kfc burger king. blah blah blah .. meat products we consume. we feel no guilt , we do it with ease , we appear to be oblivious to the source of these food. how these animals were captivaed and killed ,the cruelty involved and such.. and yet we cringe and weep when we see animals being killed for their skins and such...we even get into heated debates or become the poetically angsty when we talk about animal rights and stuff.. i mean are we not hypocritical or what?and after all that was said and done. after all the tears and the waves of emotion felt.. we settle for peace over a finger licking good meal of kentucky fried chicken.
in the same way do we acknowledge only the noble we wish to see in us and underacknowledge the menace within every single one of us?
life is such a complex matter. in which we have only lived that much of and have the rest of our lives to understand and comprehend and hopefully simplify. or not.
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