Thursday, September 15, 2005
Sunday, September 04, 2005
Nothing
So nothing has been going on in The Duff's life. Same old boring stuff, repetitive and dull. Never had the impetus to blog. He was just trudging on through life.
The Duff thinks that this is the case because there is no challenge in his life, and its too smooth, too good. Challenge and pitfalls produces creativity, and if he has nothing to say, nothing bad has been happening to him then.
And thus perhaps with that in his subconscious, he just depressed himself today.
He was down, irritable, cranky, obnoxious, and overall a prick to be around with.
Only one thing piqued his interest slightly. It was a documentary named "Without Borders" from the National Geographic channel. It followed a boy named Mir in Afghanistan. In a district named Bamiyan. Living in a cave. It is a harsh place which used to have the tallest Buddha statues for 1600 years. The Taliban had blown them up recently when the americans invaded.
The videography was excellent and the protagonist was utterly charming. He was skinny, to the point of being malnourished. But he was happy. He knew of nothing else that would make him realise his predicament is full of hardships.
There was a point where Mir's father was lamenting how Londoners have it good, with television, food, clothes, shoes, huge houses, etc and how Mir has no concept of such luxuries. The camera panned to Mir and he was smiling his usual smile, cheerful as always. Then he said,"I am going to run away."
That cracked the Duff up.
;->
Now that's the Truth.
The Duff thinks that this is the case because there is no challenge in his life, and its too smooth, too good. Challenge and pitfalls produces creativity, and if he has nothing to say, nothing bad has been happening to him then.
And thus perhaps with that in his subconscious, he just depressed himself today.
He was down, irritable, cranky, obnoxious, and overall a prick to be around with.
Only one thing piqued his interest slightly. It was a documentary named "Without Borders" from the National Geographic channel. It followed a boy named Mir in Afghanistan. In a district named Bamiyan. Living in a cave. It is a harsh place which used to have the tallest Buddha statues for 1600 years. The Taliban had blown them up recently when the americans invaded.
The videography was excellent and the protagonist was utterly charming. He was skinny, to the point of being malnourished. But he was happy. He knew of nothing else that would make him realise his predicament is full of hardships.
There was a point where Mir's father was lamenting how Londoners have it good, with television, food, clothes, shoes, huge houses, etc and how Mir has no concept of such luxuries. The camera panned to Mir and he was smiling his usual smile, cheerful as always. Then he said,"I am going to run away."
That cracked the Duff up.
;->
Now that's the Truth.
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