Tuesday 14 October 2008

Let's even things out a bit.

Destiny.Fate.Who defines it? Certainly not you or me, dear stranger.Welcome back to my page, by the way.How have things been for you?Not that i really care of course, it was just a filler question.(Hint; if someone asks you this question in the future, do not even begin to presume that he actually cares about how things have been for you.Yeah i know,sad but it's true.)
Your glum guy has changed quite a bit in these last few days.Not that he is not glum anymore of course.I am still here to lower your inflated self esteem, make you feel one with the masses,force you to doubt and reconsider your most deeply established ideals and beliefs just for a fleeting moment.And if yours truly manages to do that, you can be certain he will cease to be glum for a bit and feel a small breeze of accomplishment.I cherish the idea of making people feel down to earth, for humility is a value long lost nowadays stranger, and people who still radiate it in their everyday expressions are well sought after as friends, advisors and partners.
As i foretold, i have changed a bit in the last few days as we all have,knowingly or not.And i have been thinking.I have been thinking that every person in this world needs something to believe in, something or someone who will never let him down.In most peoples' minds, this need is fulfilled by the term "God".Funny, isn't it? They claim to have found the answer to all their questions through a means that stubbornly refuses to communicate with them with no way other than signs, which can as well be interpreted as mere hallucinations.The same people tend to mindlessly conform to everything their religion (i.e set of behavior rules ironically) dictates and regurgitate words of wisdom from dusty old scripts.
I have always strived to avoid that mindset,so i have lately been thinking about finding my version of the divine.Whether i have found it or not still remains a mystery for me, however do allow me to humbly offer you my alternate way of thinking.
What has always driven me insane in this world is injustice.I can cope with anything else but injustice.A little bit of me dies inside every time i encounter a man or woman lacking the basic means to survive.And these means usually translate to the most hated thing this world has to offer; money.When i walk out of my home (which is rare nowadays by the way) i feel sad,because i know i will have to face this social phenomenon which in Greece is even more striking.Every single passerby should be going someplace different than another, at any given day or time proving his individuality with his lifestyle, yet i know they all have the same purpose when all is said and done.They are going somewhere to pay. Or they are going somewhere to make money in order to spend them somewhere else. This conclusion may or may not strike you as odd, but when you come to think about it it is disturbingly true.We have become slaves of our financial assets.And this, stranger, is a vicious and never ending circle. We have to work every day and we have come to like it. We like it because in the end of the day/month/hour we will get payed,enabling us to work again and so on and so forth.So what does injustice have to do with money? I bet you can figure that out by yourself, no need for me to elaborate.
So, my dumb self had to find a way to justify the reason things are the way the are.And you know how our mind works.When you can't find a rational reason for the events that surround you, you turn to the divine.
I will name my God "The Balance".
For every good thing that happens to you,there is an evenly bad thing just around the corner, stalking you,waiting around the corner for the right time to strike.This of course works both ways.The balance in my opinion can be tailored to your likes and dislikes.Good things are usually the things you want to happen to you.That's right.The more you want something to happen to you, the more likely it is to happen.However,bad things...well let's say they are different.

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