fragility
Haven't been blogging for a while, been quite caught up with mugging, and spending some time on some game called granado espada, which is pretty ok, despite the continuous lag and the rather linear leveling system.
Also, I've been lacking inspiration, motivation even, to blog. Why i am not sure, its just a phase perhaps.
A serious injury seems to put life in another perspective for a person. Now i walk on pavements worrying that some stiff leaf would knock into my fragile right eye. I lean on my right arm, i raise it up and i worry if it would hold, or if it would give way and rip off its socket yet again. All this where previously i had no worries for such matters, where pain and injury were common daily affairs, for most were far less lasting than even the longest sicknesses.
It seems to be the human condition to always look at things when it is too late. Wars, pandemics, extinctions have all occured because at some point, someone high up said "hey, screw planning, it worked last time, so why not do it again?". Only when they (their underlings actually) are mired up in their own blood and bodies do they realise that they'd just made a grave, unretractable mistake. So this is reflected in the smallest of our actions. Many smoke knowing the health risks but treat it all with confident flippancy, having never suffered its symptoms. Many jaywalk, having never experienced fatal or near death experiences (my current count: 6) with vehicles. We do all these simply because the merely possible consequences of our actions do not seem significant enough to trouble us, usually because we have never experienced it first-handed.
So we have a word: foresight. Few have it, though many claim (or privately convince themselves) they have it. This word is part of a long list of qualities world leaders should posess yet within that list it shines as the most elusive, the hardest quality of all for voters to gauge. Only through leadership and decades of policies and social change can foresight be measured. And by then, as it seems to be with all things, its too late to change our actions or decisions.
Just a random thought, with no lesson but the commonly preached "look before you leap".
Also, I've been lacking inspiration, motivation even, to blog. Why i am not sure, its just a phase perhaps.
A serious injury seems to put life in another perspective for a person. Now i walk on pavements worrying that some stiff leaf would knock into my fragile right eye. I lean on my right arm, i raise it up and i worry if it would hold, or if it would give way and rip off its socket yet again. All this where previously i had no worries for such matters, where pain and injury were common daily affairs, for most were far less lasting than even the longest sicknesses.
It seems to be the human condition to always look at things when it is too late. Wars, pandemics, extinctions have all occured because at some point, someone high up said "hey, screw planning, it worked last time, so why not do it again?". Only when they (their underlings actually) are mired up in their own blood and bodies do they realise that they'd just made a grave, unretractable mistake. So this is reflected in the smallest of our actions. Many smoke knowing the health risks but treat it all with confident flippancy, having never suffered its symptoms. Many jaywalk, having never experienced fatal or near death experiences (my current count: 6) with vehicles. We do all these simply because the merely possible consequences of our actions do not seem significant enough to trouble us, usually because we have never experienced it first-handed.
So we have a word: foresight. Few have it, though many claim (or privately convince themselves) they have it. This word is part of a long list of qualities world leaders should posess yet within that list it shines as the most elusive, the hardest quality of all for voters to gauge. Only through leadership and decades of policies and social change can foresight be measured. And by then, as it seems to be with all things, its too late to change our actions or decisions.
Just a random thought, with no lesson but the commonly preached "look before you leap".
posted by slipperdan at 10:25 PM
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