15 May 2008
Begging the invite
Why we always can’t leave things be even when they’re not hurting us is still a mystery to me. Why we can’t simply enjoy simple things without being dramatic is taboo. We are masochists and we love complicated lives. We get off that way.
Take for example, a simple invitation. Let me repeat that: A. Simple. Invitation. NOT a death threat. NOT a subpoena. NOT even the results of an HIV test. So how in screwed existences would it make us so uneasy that we turn into a crime investigator who just gobbled three packs of caffeine—dry?
And all that shitload. I remember something in Philosophy class, that “begging the question” is a fallacy. That you’re a bird-brain wuss when you answer a question with another question. Now, in my universe, acting like such an imbecile when thrown—passed—an invitation is the same. The choice between gratitude and mistaking yourself for Paris Hilton even comes later. Either you’re in or you want to be forgotten is all an invitation wants, N.O.T. a blasted question in return.
It’s the other deadly sin.
Take for example, a simple invitation. Let me repeat that: A. Simple. Invitation. NOT a death threat. NOT a subpoena. NOT even the results of an HIV test. So how in screwed existences would it make us so uneasy that we turn into a crime investigator who just gobbled three packs of caffeine—dry?
"What’s happening? Who’s coming? Why is she coming?
Who’s not coming? Why not?
Why there? Who else is invited?
How long is it gonna be? Am I really invited?"
Who’s not coming? Why not?
Why there? Who else is invited?
How long is it gonna be? Am I really invited?"
And all that shitload. I remember something in Philosophy class, that “begging the question” is a fallacy. That you’re a bird-brain wuss when you answer a question with another question. Now, in my universe, acting like such an imbecile when thrown—passed—an invitation is the same. The choice between gratitude and mistaking yourself for Paris Hilton even comes later. Either you’re in or you want to be forgotten is all an invitation wants, N.O.T. a blasted question in return.
It’s the other deadly sin.
"Why we can’t simply enjoy simple things without being dramatic is taboo"
well, most humans who have been fed with diverse ideologies, morals and ideas from various schools of thoughts are most likely to succumb in the pit of making their lives more complex, thus, depriving themselves of enjoying the simplest of things in life.
=)
and oh, the tulibudibu douchuu a your header made me laugh today. hehe.