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The Worst Epiphanies

There was a time when I thought that we can learn something from every bad thing that happens in our lives. The trouble with that is, no matter how true that may be, you have to be wise enough to realize what that something is. Conjuring up explanations for your own benefit might end up to bite you in the arse later on. If you always think of our own realizations or epiphanies to be always true, it will almost always lead you to believe in an entirely wrong idea.

Studying philosophy taught me that being subjective can teach a man to be blinded from what is actually true. For example, there was this girl in a religion class I had a few years back that was so convinced that hell did not exist, but rather it is an illusion and that we who are in the world right now are already in hell. Where did that come from? I wondered that developing your own ideas of something without regard to what is actually true can totally make you sound stupid. Just like you coloring outside the borders of your coloring book.

I also hate those who blog who make it sound as if he's got it all figured out. Am i like that? Well anyway, there is something about blogging blindly into the night that I find arrogant. If you intend to show the world what's up, the least that you can do is to look for someone who might actually agree with you. Or at least make it sound plausible. I love reading a blogger's response to ill comments. They get so damn defensive their whole premise of being sagelike blows up in their face!

I don't mind it when people disagree with me. I'm not the wisest guy in the world, and I'm not the kind of person who would think that I have nothing else to learn. In fact, I'm just a dude who is just here in the same world you are on; sharing your reality, learning to understand life as I go.

If we all should look at each other really hard, we realize that we are all just trying to get by as best as we can. And when you act as if you're the king of the world of living, then you haven't lived the life you should. Winners are usually those who realize they always have something to learn and losers are those who are too proud of their own selves they fail to even realize how little they actually know and how far they have to go.




- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone while waiting for my flight home.

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