When Good Fruits Go Bad

Sunday, August 20, 2006

Null and void

Previous entry deleted due to grossly inappropriate content.

New entry

Everythings good and fine and chummy all round.

Went for night cycling yesterday. Travelled from home to east coast to lau pa sat to newton hawker centre to lavender hawker center to hoo seng food centre to blk 85 to changi village and back to east coast. am i tired? darn right i am. did i have fun? darn right i did. i learnt something in the process too. Denial is one of the best forms of motivation. darn right it is.

Self censorship.. i'll have to think about it.

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Do unto others

I think i am too judgmental for my own liking. Dunno how come though.. I've tried to look at things more objectively and not jump to silly and illogical conclusions about people and situations.. but i always find myself falling into the trap of making these filtered and biased perceptions. What i am wondering tho is if such behaviour is normal? Although i tend to be pretty accurate most of the time, its the times where i fail to see the full picture that irks me. Everything can be deduced or predicated from close analysis of any situation.. the only variable.. and the hardest to predict.. is human nature. Sometimes i would like to know people better in general, but i know at the back of my mind that it is impossible.. People present so many different faces.. is it possible at all to sift through to the real person at the end? Not that i'm complaining but i'm wondering why people bother with hiding their true selves at all? Are we all so imperfect and hideously and fundamentally flawed that we are actually ashamed to acknowledge our own existence? What has gone wrong here? Or am i now jumping to conclusions again based on my own warped perceptions? Perhaps i am not yet wise enough to understand.. sigh.

OH! and coming to the topic of wisdom.. i had an interesting thought. Wisdom and its counterpart folly both exist in an equilbrium and are mutually exchangeable. We gain wisdom through folly and yet we commit folly through wisdom. Perhaps one would argue then that wisdom which leads to folly would not qualify as true wisdom.. but then who is to quantify wisdom, and whether its true or false? Are we then condemned to a life of folly then? I read that wisdom chooses those who seek her, but would leave to doom those who lose her. How then should we seek to gain wisdom.. and more so.. how do we retain her? Perhaps someone could enlighten me?