Mushiro

Life would be much, much better if no such thing as "That's your problem, not mine" in our minds.

Humanity has never been more forgotten. It makes one wonder where has the sentiment of "I scratch your back, you scratch mine" gone to? Isn't that what life is about; helping one another (regardless of one's background, etc) to make this world a better place? So that our daily lives will be much smoother?

"Your problem, not mine" sums up the speaker's personality nicely: Selfish, arrogant.

Not everyone faces the same darn things. Sure, the older ones would have said that they had indeed, in the distant past. But times are changing.

Your past is not necessarily my present. And our present times are different.

Systems are established to make processes run smoother. But a system that makes everyone's life a living hell should be thrown aside, abolished for the sake of mankind.

Trying to come up with a system as a solution is not easy. One must be able to anticipate the un-anticipated, having a forecast of every single possibility that may come across. And usually, systems, being god-awfully rigid, are not easily changed.

Another thing is tradition. Perhaps it is our inherent tendency to make things more complicated than they actually are. It's enough having limits we are never to transgress...so why on earth do we have to add more 'rules' to it? Going against tradition is the best way of being labelled as an infidel.

If only I could not care less about how people/society think about me. Would that mean I would be going against my innate disposition? Is it wrong to fight the current if it's only sending you to self-destruction?

Though we, being the ones stuck with following those confounded rubbish they call system and whatnots, are too impotent to fight for our basic human rights. We're living in a world where power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Could someone...anyone tell me where's the exit?

Current Music: Illuminati - Malice Mizer

Yuusenken

In retrospect, perhaps the ideology that is postmodernism is not entirely false. (Although, the onion bit is enough to send me laughing to the nearest asylum...)

They claim there is no Truth. That's simply because they haven't found it yet. Or, even if they had, I doubt they had paid enough attention to see that Truth is staring right back at them.

But the fact about relativism bothers me a bit.

The problem with relativism is that it is quite true. We're all different. Just because two people are blood-siblings it doesn't guarantee that they can see eye to eye. What's important thing to someone may not be as important to the next person.

Your priority list and mine may not even resemble each other in the most remote sense possible.

Usually, we base our priority list according to our desires. That is, to fulfil what the heart calls out for easily makes the top 10 in the list.

Then, one may ask, what is the problem?

Nothing new, that's for sure. We have this faculty of desire that is always thirsty for more, although it knows that what it wants is not going to keep my attention for long. The 'high' acquired after the said 'thirst' is 'quenched' is usually short-lived, since the said faculty is now hunting for something new.

Progress (that is, as time goes by...) brings more things for us to hunger for. Take technology for instance; All those gadgets. Laptops, PDAs, mobile phones, and the list is endless. The past introduced us to cordless phones - which were sizable! - and the present shoves all the latest designs and new, additional capabilities, all compacted in one.

But these things don't really last for long. Once consumed by Time, the battery's performance would start to deteriorate. Scratches here and there start to appear for no apparent reason. And then you find yourself wishing for more, and a newer replacement.

And thus, the line bordering need and desire blurs.

Current Music: She Is - Clazziquai

Shortage

I am appalled with the degree of my ignorance and stupidity.

It is perfectly understandable that the time factor is lacking - in addition to my own limited memory and perhaps, initiative - so one can hardly learn everything that the heart desires.

Some things take ages to understand, and aeons to master; especially it involves a truckload of memorisation and an ocean-depth understanding. And if it is necessary to learn an entirely new jargon, that doesn't make sense at all if one were to use it in one's daily conversation.

So I've to consult one who's erudite in the matter. It's relieving, to a certain point, to hear my own unconscious self admitting to my weaknesses!

Current Music: Shizuku - Okuda Miwako