quod me nutrit me destruit

in an uncharateristically individualistic(Hofstede,1998) posting

• am still alive...

• have begun to realise in the past few months that I am grateful for the so-called tough life I had when I was younger.

I'm so much less sheltered,

and little incidents don't piss me off as much.

I'm through with all that.

It also means that sometimes,

I can act alot older than some people close to or over 10 years older than I am.

and that when they act younger than I do at me,

I don't react the same way they do.

This has been reinforced over and over again in the last 1.5 years

• I've come to appreciate being strong.

• I have come more and more to realise that the more you learn, the less you know. There is so much to learn, so many things you do not know, and that there is no one you should not take the time to listen to.

• I have come to realise I'm not as liberal as I thought I was. That I am sometimes as bigoted as the next person. And that is something I'd like to fix. I realised this after making a realisation and value judgement on a friend, then asking myself whether I was all that different anyway

• I've come to realise that sometimes, without realising it, I take the moral high horse where there is none to be taken, and it is no right of mine to do so anyway.

• that I do not believe in capital punishment for drug dealers

• that despite being the hopeless cynic, a part of me does believe in love

• that I've finally learnt what it means to flirt

• that a united colourless (in more ways than one) world that we were taught to dream of in the 80s is not going to form world peace. That it's the understanding of our differences and ACCEPTING them that could just be the key.
• and that world peace is just a dream

• and that coffee is a food group all on its own

posted by sway @ 6:42 PM