2004-10-05 - 2:44 a.m.
Ever wonder if your sense of the trite and hamhanded overshadows your ability to discern wisdom from an unlikely source? Is a bird in the hand really worth two in the bush, or is that a clever way of saying don't risk what you got because it might not pan out, play it safe stupid? Or is it something people just say to piss me off? What about the bit about having loved and lost? Is that just some bullshit people in happy relationships sling? Or bullshit people without current relationships tell themselves to take the sting out of it? And what is it about your current level of acceptance that annoys them so much they have to try to push you towards some greater meaning, which conveniently they've already grasped? And do I really think too much? Or do I just think so ineffectively that I end up doing the same thinking over and over again until something changes? And if that were coming from your girlfriend, would you call it a loaded question? Is my lack of faith in the democratic process well founded, or part of the problem? Or both? And what about lack of faith in general, is that a healthy questioning of what is and what's just a story, or a function of the thinking too much thing? And what is a rhetorical question anyway, one used to set up a long self important diatribe, or a question that nags but to which we are closed?
