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Profound Ponderings

Saturday, 21 November 2009

  • Toothpaste

    I remember back when I was little, I used to be amazed by the little things.  Things like toothpaste left me in such awe.  I looked forward to brushing my teeth mostly because I'd get to play around with the toothpaste tube and observe its consistency and wonderful swirling colors.  I would often wonder, how do they contain the colorful swirls contained in the tube? It was a work of art like no other. 

    The way it squirted out of the tube and onto the toothbrush:  it was like frozen yogurt, but not as yummy.  And yet, it didn't melt right away.  It stood there on top of the thin pillars.  It was like a work of architecture as well.

    It was the little things like that that got me really curious about why certain things appeared to defy our inherent "rational" laws of the world.  Those small moments of awe got me thinking about how amazing life is...not so much to be a part of, but to observe.

    It's the little things like that that I rarely pay attention to anymore.  Reality has gotten me wrapped up in action without much time for reflection.  I have become the toothpaste.   Contained and squirted onto pins and needles with an iota of idea of my surroundings. 

    It's hard to believe that this year is almost over.  I don't remember much about this year at all.  I realize that I'll soon be writing my annual new years resolution update, and I fear that I won't have as much to write about as I used to. 

    But, for what it's worth, it's great to have these breaks to just sit back and analyze where your life is headed, and what changes need to be made. 

    It's great to just SLEEP and dream for once. 

Monday, 09 November 2009

  • In the Sewers of Slumber

    It was disgusting.  All that crap I had to clean up in the bathroom.  And it didn't help that someone had not flushed the toilet.  I flushed the contents down to the sewers where it'd decompose into life, and I cleaned up the disaster in the sink basin.  Once I was done with all that, I washed my hands.  It was then, that I noticed her out of corner of my eye.  I know she was there, but I assumed she was going to ignore me.  Or was I ignoring her?  

    I quickly walked through the bathroom door without providing any eye contact assuming that things would go as usual.  They didn't.  For once, she spoke to me, "Hey..."   I turned around and forced a smile, "Oh, hey!" half hoping that the conversation would end right there.  It didn't.  "Can you come in here?  We have to talk..."  I smiled at her, dumbfounded and distraught, and I shook my head slowly.  "No, we don't have to."  I turned to leave her behind.  Leave her in the bathroom.  Leave her with the stink of it all.  She wouldn't dare follow me.   She did.

    She started to talk about it, despite my rejection of doing so.  La La La La La, I'm not listening.  And yet, I was responding to her questions uncontrollably.  I started running away from her voice.  The tunnels grew darker as I found myself in the sewers of my past.  Filthy waters scoured the shallow trenches, and ripples clashed against one another as a parade passed by.   I seeked refuge in one of the floats, hoping that I could hide from her.  But was I running away or running towards?  Confusion unsettled me as memories enraptured me.  Delirium took over as I combed my hair with the slightest buzzing sound.  Yet, no hair pulled out of my head despite my effort to fling myself overboard.   This parade of memories was maddness.  I had to leave.  What worse is that she had found me.

    I took direct action.  I hopped off the float, and flew at her with rage and frustration.  I grabbed her hair and brought her face down into the muddy waters of this ancient sewer.  I fled with regret and shame for I realized that while I had been unsuccessful in pulling out my hair, I had been more than accomplished in pulling out my heart. 

    The news carried quickly of my monstrous actions.  I feared the devastating reprise that awaited me at the surface...




    ...and that's when I woke up from this nightmare. 

Tuesday, 25 August 2009

  • Immunity from Puzzling Demotivation

    Everything is falling apart and yet falling into place at the same time. How does that work? Like puzzle pieces scrambling to find their place, I find myself scrambling to secure pieces of my life. It's not quite as easy as it sounds. When the box says "For All Ages" they probably weren't kidding. It may take an entire lifetime to complete the puzzle, and yet, I don't think you're ever really satisfied with the result. Because when the puzzle is complete, then what else is there to do? You become bored again because deep inside you find joy in agonizing over certain things that are incomplete and still fresh for the picking. So then what's the point? To be busy...forever. I think that's the point. That's life. That's living.

    Does a cell ever suddenly decide to stop all metabolic processes and cease all activity. Of course not. It strives to keep surviving the only way it knows how. It throughly studies its DNA database. It transcribes and translates its RNA components. It builds through its proteomic evolutionary ancestry to adapt to its environment. And when some bacterial pathogen or virus dare interrupt the normal construct of its life, it rebels and seeks help. "Help me!" it cries. "Save me from being unproductive....from being malproductive...from being someone I do not wish to be. Save me from a fate worse than death. Save me from infection. Save me from a life not worth living."

    So I'm still falling apart and falling together trying to make the pieces stick together. But that's ok. I can't simply stop what I am doing or become distracted by transposons and foreign puzzle pieces trying to make their way into my DNA. No way. I won't have it. I have to finish this puzzle and move on to the next one!

    Alas, I am infected with laziness, demotivation, and fatigue right now, however. So I cry out, "Help me!"

    Hopefully a T-helper cell rather than a cytotoxic T-cell will come to my aide...

Sunday, 10 May 2009

  • Prank Phone Call

    So someone just prank phone called me. I don't believe I've ever gotten a prank phone call before. Actually I don't get many phone calls in general. So it was kind of amusing and quite a fun study break to just talk to someone random instead of reading about Tourette's syndrome and such.

    (Ironically, the caller mentioned that he had Tourette's syndrome in order to mask the fact that he kept losing his Indian accent every now and then. Lol.)

    Thank you Mr. Prank Phone Caller! You've made my life a bit more sane and less lonely. I'm just so upset that I'll never know the identity of the prankster. Oh well.




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