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Archive for February, 2010
My favourite, your favourite
Feb 9th
Been thinking a bit about favourites, specifically those relating to the parent-child relationship. Parents get a pretty hard deal having to always confirm that “I don’t have any favourites, I love you all equally”.
Why shouldn’t they have favourites is my question? I mean we all have favourites regarding almost anything and everything, right? A favourite cat, a favourite music genre, a favourite food, a favourite colleague, a favourite friend and definitely a favourite extended family member….so why not a favourite kid?
Why do we assume or even expect that the laws of society and human dynamics don’t apply when we talk about kids and their relationships to their parents?
I am not saying that it makes being the less favourite any easier. All I am saying is that it is what it is and it is what makes us human, we have a tendency to like and dislike.
Anyways, my brain fart for the day 
The end of the earth
Feb 8th
I was driving back from a distant client meeting recently (this place was out in the sticks so I had time to think) and I was paying attention to the road as I was driving over it with some detail. Not the potholes or the lines or anything like that. Rather, I became engrossed in the thought that at any point in time, we are, literally, walking on the edge of the earth.
We take this for granted surely. I mean we get pulled into a world of abstraction where the blue sky formed from changing air pressures creates this blueish barrier between us on earth, and space.
The reality is that the moment I jump into the air, I am already in space. I have actually done what all those people who spend $20 million do. I went into space. I know it sounds retarded but think about it for a second. Walking on the surface of the earth is essentially the same as walking on the surface of the moon. We perceive it be different because we see that amazing blue sky above us which creates this illusion of separation but its just air really.
What a simple thought, it was profound for me.
Naive
Feb 8th
Naive, is a word shrouded in disdain for most people. No-one seems to want to be naive or be known as naive.
Well, I am naive and I am fucking happy about it! Let me tell you what naive means to me…
While you find a problem in every solution, I find a solution to every problem. While you spend all your time focusing on the details, I spend my time happily ignoring them in the knowledge that everything always works itself out in the end. While you complicate your life with your inability to commit or to compromise, I acknowledge that two heads are always better than one and three heads are always better than two. While you spend your entire life focusing on meaningless titles and pats on the back that neither you nor anyone else will even remember in 5 years, I focus on being true to myself and not playing the game. While you have no idea about how toxic you are to yourself, I am confident that the way to my own success, is by us all succeeding together.
While you cannot survive without others knowing how clever you think you are, I carry the knowledge that I am smarter than you for the simple reason that I do not care whether or not I am smarter than you. While you cannot know true love because you cannot face yourself, I love completely and am completely loved because I am not afraid to get hurt.
The reason I am all this and you are not, is because I am naive. I chose to see the world as new and fresh every day. I choose to see each situation as an opportunity and not a chore or a disease. I choose to make mistakes and admit them. I choose to not care about being the smartest or fastest or richest.
I choose to be everything that you are not because I understand that the secret to life is not lust or greed or gain or revenge but rather it is love.
I choose to tell you this because watching you’ destroy yourself again and again and again and spend a long life chasing things you think matter, is agonising. I want you to be happy. I want you to know how wonderful it is to be free. I want you to know that in not chasing everything you think is important, the things that are important become apparent and realised.
Go ahead, call me an idealist, but one day, when its far too late, you will realise that you could have been more to more people by being a little bit, naive…
