Moral, good, chaste.....
Does virtue really mean anything? Its standards are purely subjective but its implications are not. Virtue is a medieval trait that embraces hypocrisy! There's no such thing as a virtuous woman or a virtuous man... Though you could potentially have a naive or virginal and religious woman, and possibly a courageous man... When a word has a different meaning (not just implication but meaning) when applied to different genders... Or depending on your mood... Well then it's clearly impartial and legitimate, exemplifying virtue!
Friday, 10 July 2009
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
The road less traveled...
This has been my favourite poem since I was around 12 years old... Maybe it's time to start taking it's message to heart!
ROAD LESS TRAVELED
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth
Then took the other as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet, knowing how way leads onto way
I doubted if I should ever come back
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Two roads diverged in a wood
And I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference
Robert Frost
ROAD LESS TRAVELED
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth
Then took the other as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet, knowing how way leads onto way
I doubted if I should ever come back
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Two roads diverged in a wood
And I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference
Robert Frost
'Catch' the boy...
'What wrong with him? - He's arab, christian and rich?' Sounds like a bad line from a really bad 'lesbian' movie... http://www.enlightenment-productions.com/index.php?page=films_icts But that's another story! Its the reverberating words that echo in your head time and time again in multiple voices... 'But he runs his dads company in Dubai, and they're expanding, and he drives a Porsche!' Personality - Irrelevent! Who needs a personality when u have a credit card?! And what the hell am I gonna do with a Porsche when im stuck in a miserable marriage! Your a hot commodity... Yup, aha, a commodity... And then they can buy me, and I'll be the trophy with the pretty designer dresses, parked right next to the Porsche! Sounds lovely, and what's kinda scary is that's the aim, the target, the Promised Land! Find the boy, then 'catch' the boy... And then what, release the boy? Or get stuck with him for a freaking eternity! Waking up next to him every morning... 4 ever! What possesses women to do that to themselves? Insecurity? It's usually the most 'secure' and accomplished women who have the confidence to target. Maybe Im a little misguided but Id rather focus my efforts on professional accomplishments and categorize men where they belong, in the extra curricular parts of my brain!
Sunday, 5 July 2009
Spiritual Banter!!
There can definitely something calming about spiritual books, despite their mind-numbing, rhetorical banter. The trick to understanding the depth behind the simplistic words and even more simplistic concepts, is being in the right somewhat pensive, pseudo depressed, overwhelmed, and emotionally exhausted mood. In that particular mood the simplest and most basic concepts appear enlightening... Each idea comes in the form of a revelation. The funny thing is the more popular the book, the more simplistic the concept, the wider the scope for personal interpretation. Then the writers take credit for your own ingenious interpretation of whatever nonsense they managed to communicate. I'll give them some credit for having a basic understanding of human psychology and their detailed observation of human behaviour which when communicated to us (but only at that point of mental desperation) somehow has a mind-altering effect.
Now take that same book, and read it while alert and analytical, and see if you achieve the same emotionally elaborate reaction... I am reading a book, that seemed substantially significant to human growth 2 months ago, and I just didnt have time to get through the last chapter. Now, i have ten pages left and enough time, but I don't seem to want to get through them. The entire books 'meaning' has been reduced to one idealistic man's marxist fantasy for an ideal world of equality, communicated through stages of human emotion (and growth). If I'd known from the beginning where the book was going, i don't think I'd have bothered wirh it!
Now take that same book, and read it while alert and analytical, and see if you achieve the same emotionally elaborate reaction... I am reading a book, that seemed substantially significant to human growth 2 months ago, and I just didnt have time to get through the last chapter. Now, i have ten pages left and enough time, but I don't seem to want to get through them. The entire books 'meaning' has been reduced to one idealistic man's marxist fantasy for an ideal world of equality, communicated through stages of human emotion (and growth). If I'd known from the beginning where the book was going, i don't think I'd have bothered wirh it!
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