December 07, 2013

'Vanity is the greatest seducer of reason'

It is becoming very challenging. Sleep, what else? In one fell swoop, I managed to slay seven mosquitoes. I had so much blood in my hands, how could I sleep? I mean, not the moral argument of having blood in one's hands, but if there are so many mosquitoes, how can I sleep? Why are they breeding like the people of this country? What is the problem with this blanket? It has so many holes, it comes away on one side when I turn to the other side leaving the juicy flesh of my body(I read it and it was so gross, chances are that I am never reading this post again) prey to the cunning stingers of those blood sucking creatures(not vampires). I harbor a suspicion that they have night vision goggles developed by our country(well, if the leading defense research establishment of this country is pioneering brand old mosquito repellents). The heat is unbearable when I use the blanket, and if I don't, the mosquitoes, like our country's neighbors, are ready with their insurgencies.

'Even if you were destined to live three thousand years,remember that no one loses any other life other than the one he lives'

Parents withe little kids are so fascinating. By fascinating, I mean contemptibly obnoxious and idiotically oblivious to their target audience. They reel off stories from blogs on parenting, and they seem to know the names of the mutated virus and parasites that may have infected their children. 
This virus, in the olden days, was called the common bloody cold. 
It is because kids have weak immune systems that grows stronger with time. It is exactly the same thing that has been happening for the last three hundred tretha yugams(see what I did there?) and you think you are somehow being extra careful in getting second, third, fourth and a fifteen hundredth opinion?

'Say to yourself first thing in the morning: today I shall meet people who are meddling, ungrateful, aggressive, treacherous, malicious and unsocial.'

Are there any other topics available other than real estate and raising kids? Anything? No? If not, can you please shut the flop up? I have but one question to ask: what was the last book that you read? Seven thousand habits of highly nauseous people? The zen who killed his fourth wife in cold blood? Such lovely books, I am quite sure they are very fascinating for the average chimp population. I am quite sure every other person-child who is grown up without realizing that he/she is grown up would be enamored and never be frowned upon caught reading such life changing books.

'Good fortune consists in good inclinations of the soul, good impulses, good actions.'

If there ever was a tempestuous relationship in this world, it would have to be between me and my stomach. I was not subject to this much hostility even from my adviser's glare: my gut has bested this by miles. I am tired of having to live on a diet of electrolysis solutions like a battery (now thinking about electro-chemical corrosion which is why they have galvanic plates in a ship's hull.) I am unable to wallow in this cesspool of a heap of life. I suppose it is another one of those lifelong challenges that would continue to torment me.(At this point in time, I am unable to recall one other lifelong challenge, but then, there it is)

All quotes from translation of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.