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Saturday, February 26, 2011
Bearded Philosophy
Bearded Philosophy
Your first day at college, you step into the place, all bright and energetic, your aspirations high and skyward, ready to make a mark, ready to make a difference blah blah blah.. you know where I am getting at, right? Anyways, you’re ready for college life, brimming with confidence, and why shouldn’t you be? You are wearing your most favourite pair of jeans which your mum picked for your 14th birthday. And ofcourse, you are sporting a very flashy moustache and look like the perfect gentleman. Unfortunately, one of your closest machas does the "right" thing, and lets you know that you infact look like a complete dork. It’s more to do with the moustache, he reasons. You have a choice here, break the guy's nose or disfigure your face. You choose the obvious and disfigure your face (and your friend laughs all the way to hell!).
First up, the clean shaven phase. It ofcourse embodies your pathetic attempts at being "cool". Obviously, it doesn’t work and you end up looking totally gay, now that’s a decent way of putting it. The tipping point would come at home, when your granny confuses you with your cousin, a 15 year-old girl!
So you decide to change and rightly so. The next logical leap would be the french beard. Everyone from Sachin to Rajinikanth has sported french beards on his way to stardom, why shouldn’t you? At first, it actually seems to be a pretty good choice but only then you notice that it’s probably the most common thing in the world. It’s not "cool" enough for you.
Then you move on to the goatee. Sure, friends back home would annoyingly tease you with that dumb four-legged creature with pointed ears which just happens to have the same name. But why do you care, you are doing this for yourself, right? right??
Finally you just give up and resort to growing a beard. Smart choice, hardly any upkeep as long as you can bear the itch. Whatever. But then you realize something. Why should you change in the first place? Do people's opinion really matter to you? Is everything we do just a response to things happening around us? How original are we? Or is our supposed ‘originality’ preserved in the responses that we give? Then again, what is originality?
Your first day at college, you step into the place, all bright and energetic, your aspirations high and skyward, ready to make a mark, ready to make a difference blah blah blah.. you know where I am getting at, right? Anyways, you’re ready for college life, brimming with confidence, and why shouldn’t you be? You are wearing your most favourite pair of jeans which your mum picked for your 14th birthday. And ofcourse, you are sporting a very flashy moustache and look like the perfect gentleman. Unfortunately, one of your closest machas does the "right" thing, and lets you know that you infact look like a complete dork. It’s more to do with the moustache, he reasons. You have a choice here, break the guy's nose or disfigure your face. You choose the obvious and disfigure your face (and your friend laughs all the way to hell!).
First up, the clean shaven phase. It ofcourse embodies your pathetic attempts at being "cool". Obviously, it doesn’t work and you end up looking totally gay, now that’s a decent way of putting it. The tipping point would come at home, when your granny confuses you with your cousin, a 15 year-old girl!
So you decide to change and rightly so. The next logical leap would be the french beard. Everyone from Sachin to Rajinikanth has sported french beards on his way to stardom, why shouldn’t you? At first, it actually seems to be a pretty good choice but only then you notice that it’s probably the most common thing in the world. It’s not "cool" enough for you.
Then you move on to the goatee. Sure, friends back home would annoyingly tease you with that dumb four-legged creature with pointed ears which just happens to have the same name. But why do you care, you are doing this for yourself, right? right??
Finally you just give up and resort to growing a beard. Smart choice, hardly any upkeep as long as you can bear the itch. Whatever. But then you realize something. Why should you change in the first place? Do people's opinion really matter to you? Is everything we do just a response to things happening around us? How original are we? Or is our supposed ‘originality’ preserved in the responses that we give? Then again, what is originality?
Labels: Philosophy
Ashwin Rajadesingan ♥ Saturday, February 26, 2011 link to post
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Friday, December 3, 2010
No this is not nonsense
No no no... the world is a beautiful, colourful place. Everything makes sense just the way they are. No tomfoolery, no pricked conscience or any of that shit. I like everything the way they are. Change is only necessary if there exists a disequilibrium. I live in perfect harmony with myself; there is no need for change… Really. Stop this!! Why cripple and torture me into admitting that everything around me is fake when clearly everything is well and truly real. No!! Argh!! Why are you doing this! Leave me alone! Fuck you, you sick bastard! WHIZ!ZIP!BHAM!
Howdy.
Who the fuck are you?
Funny you should ask. Can’t you recognize yourself?
Huh? what??
Relax, my muddled friend. ‘Don’t ask me who, ask me why’, clichéd I know.
Argh! Ok why are you here?
In simple words, I am here to save you.
You are going to save me? Save me??
Yes, repeating the word won’t change its meaning.
Save me from who? You??
You have a weird sense of humour. Even for a guy talking to himself!
Ok Superman… why are you really here? What do you want?
Think of me as you, wait I am you!! I am here to make your life a little more fun, saving you from the dreary dull life you’re ‘living’. Don’t you worry, I am not going to shout up a warcry, rally mindless punks, start a revolution and change the world.
No, I am too smart for that, actually I am way too lazy.
That settles it. You’re mad.
Your opinion. Me, I am just going to grab some popcorn, sit back and relax. Let the world rot in peace… Why would I care? Why bother with a world of sinners, rapists and paedophiles, a little exaggeration hurts no one I suppose. No, I am in for the fun part. Doing nothing.
All this nonsense for ‘doing nothing’??
DUDE, don’t you dare trivialize the ‘nobel’ art of doing nothing.
Ok wisecrack the joke’s over. Get lost. Like seriously.
Er… now that is a really dumb wish. “Like seriously”. For me to get lost, you would have to “get lost”.
Then shut up, this is the limit. I’ll kill you!!
Again an idle threat. For obvious reasons. In any case, I am leaving, pointless really, spending time with an ass like you especially when there is loonacy to enjoy, dumbness to ridicule and theories to refudiate!!
Rest assured, I’ll be back!!
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