every morning, at that last intersection before i turn left into the street where my workplace is, i have to wait precisely 4 minutes 30 seconds for the light to turn green. and whilst i'm stationary - the lanes to my right are for cars to go straight ahead, and that light is green for the first 2 minutes of my wait - i can close my eyes and tell you exactly how many cars have zoomed past me. that, my friend, is no black magic; it's merely the gentle rocking of my car each time a car passes by that allows me to do that. in fact, not only can i feel it, i can hear it too. no kidding! that's how fast those cars fly by me; and every morning i fear for my life. because, honestly, the rocking of my whole car isn't very reassuring, it feels as if my car's gonna be blown 5 feet away. that's the only time i wish i had a bigger nicer car. oh well.
there is something that's been on my mind lately. but i can't seem to put them in words. intelligence and the ability to think is a dangerous thing, sometimes you lose track of your thoughts and go deeper and deeper and deeper until you reach that point where there's no turning back. and then you formulate your own ideal world, your set of rules and dogmas that you hold so true to, that you forget to look beyond yourself and your little world. that's how extremists are. the radicals who believed, so staunchly, that they'd do whatever to "set things right". and so we claim that those people, terrorists included, are bad and evil because of their actions that were due to their beliefs. but aren't we all, to some extent, behave that way too? (by 'that', i meant doing something according to our beliefs, and that at times those actions were considered to be 'wrong' in the societal norms.)
anyhow. i can go on and on bout those nonsensical talk, in an attempt to spell out what i was thinking for the past few days. but i'd rather not. i'll save it for another time, when my words can come out more coherently. :) good day, you all.
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