Simple Questions

Sometimes we take the simple things in our lives for granted and never really gave a thought or search for the answers. For the present world knowing how to create a website is valued more than the knowledge of simple sciences. But what we often forget that everything in the present starts and are based on simple sciences.

This is a piece for the book Polgara the sorceress by D.&L. Eddings where Polgara asked her father to tutor her. When her father, Belgarath, Wanted to start teaching Polgara by a simple means of reading, she rejected the idea. For her it is silly for a sorceress to learn how to read instead of how to manage her 'Gift'. She told her father that there would be nothing the ancient people wrote that would be of her need. And so she didn't need to learn how to read, Belgarath could just tell her the important things.

Smiling wisely Belgarath asked a series of question to the 'already smart' Polgara;


Belgarath: If you have two apples here and two apples over there, how many do you have altogether?

Polgara: Four apples, of course

Belgarath: Why?

Polgara: What do you mean, "Why?" It just is. Two apples and two apples are four apples. Any idiot knows that.

Belgarath: Since you're not an idiot, you shouldn't have any trouble explaining it to me, should you?

Belgarath: We can come back to that one later. Now then, when a tree falls way back in the forest, it makes a noise, right?

Polgara: Of course it does, father.

Belgarath: Very good, Pol. What is noise?

Polgara: Something we hear.

Belgarath: Excellent. You're really very perceptive, my daughter. There's a problem, though. What if there's nobody around to hear the noise? Is it really there, then?

Polgara: Certainly it is.

Belgarath: Why?

Polgara: Because -----

Belgarath: Let's set that one aside as well and move on. Do you think the sun is going to come up tomorrow morning?

Polgara: Well, naturally it will.

Belgarath: Why?

Polgara: Well, it always has, hasn't it?

Belgarath: Pressing right along then, Why does the moon change her shape during the course of a month?'
Why does water bubble when it gets hot?
Why can't we see color in the dark?
Why do tree leaves change color in the autumn?
Why does water get hard when it's cold? And why does it turn to steam when it gets hot?
If it's noon here, why is it midnight in Mallorea?
Does the sun go around the world, or does the world go around the sun?
Where do mountains come from?
What makes things grow?

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And thus the ignorant Polgara was taught a lesson and agreed to learn from the basics.

What about us? Do you know the answers to all those questions? An observation of daily things...
Let us read ur answers to those "whys'


-RandoMind-

If I Ever See You Again

If I ever see you again,

I would tell you how much I've missed you.

If I ever see you again,

I would tell you how I've never loved no one like I loved you

If I ever see you again,

I'd ask why did you leave?

If I ever see you again,

I'd ask where I went wrong?

If I ever see you again,

I'd ask you if you ever loved me even if it was just for a second...

-RandoMind-

Reputation

My downfall is another's success...

My badnews is another's good..

My smiles is another's cry..

so y the hell are we still looking out for a reputation?

Feeling Blue

Things that has passed always have a lesson learned..

Things are yet to come depends on our action at present

Things at present are results of our action from past.

If i could turn back the time, i would do it in a different way

But i can't, so i try to face with positivity

If i could undo what i did, i would erase all nuttiness

But i can't, so i move forward

Often i wonder, how would it be, had things been different?

-RandoMind-

HYPOCRITES

One thing I hate

Hypocrites….

Most of the people I know, when asked what the dislike the most, would say liars. For me, I can still stand liars, I can’t stand hypocrites.

What’s the point of agreeing with a view when u trash it behind the speaker’s back?

What’s the point of going to temples/churches/mosques every time and still you talk behind people’s backs, you judge people and u gossip?

We live in a world of sheep where everyone has reached a moo point. They just follow the wave in unison. And even when sm ppl think otherwise, they dare not say it, afraid thth they would be pushed out of the comfort zone they are in already. And when sm1 really does stand up different n speak out loud what many has jz thought of, he is disregarded. He is called names and becomes an outcast.

Nobody dares to agree with him despite the fact that what he said what was they thought jz minutes before.

In a world where there is a shell closing the surrounding for the outside world. In a world where people believe in what they are told instead of what they experienced. In a world where nothing other than their believes are allowed. In a world that does not accept diversity. In the world that shallow, when a man stands different, he is called the fool.

His views wouldn’t be considered… not even listened may be. He is disregarded; he is trashed and called crazy. Jz because he is different.

In a shallow world that doesn’t accept diversity, being different is not understood. People fear what they fail to understand… and that fear brings them to crash him, who they call the fool.

Worse of all, are those who thinks he is right but are just afraid to say so, who does what he does but hidingly because they are afraid of the world to know and discard them, And so they follow others to crash him despite the fact that behind others they do what he does. These are the hypocrites. These are people with no values of their own. These are people who let others be their puppeteers and they just dance to the way others play their strings.

And these hypocrites are those I can’t stand of.

ps: this note is written purely on my views about human behaviors in a society/culture/place, and not to disregard any1.

Controversies

We are sometimes consumed by our own selfishness, and that's alright... we are humans. Sometimes this selfishness becomes us, and we don't realize anymore that what we want is a form of selfishness.

As humans we reproduce, its the way it is... but hv we once thought, why do we want kids? as easily as saying 'shit happens' when things dun go our way, we say 'its jz a part of life' to have kids... but hv we once stopped and wonder... what good does it do to the kid by bringing him to the world?

The world is a dark place... no matter how much you say 'it depends on how we see it', the world has its dark corners... no matter how good we raise the kids we hv brought to this world, they r bound to share those dark corners at the end...

Pain, suffering, betrayal, lies, drugs, murders... all awaits for this innocent soul... and though through all that thus the soul evolve n grow, but is it worth it?

All has reasons and all is good... God made us and told us to occupy the world... but when u decide to have a kid with ur partner... is it this message of God that brings u to tht decision? or is it ur feeling n wanting to have sm1 or ur blood to continue ur family?

is it the thought of a baby to company u n cheer u up after work?

is it the thought of a kid to save ur marriage?

is it that thought that u want a son to continue ur business?

is it because u c others having their kids?

is it because the smile their kids bring to them, u want it too?

is it the thought of having ur kids to take care of u when u r old?

having a child is a blessing indeed... its a gift from God...It is a miracle...

but to have a child just to satisfy ur need... to satisfy ur wantings...isnt that a selfish thought? a selfish act?

A child when born, has his own soul n destiny.... we thought them all we know n all he needs to know... but at one point we gotta let that child go to fulfill his own destiny... not tell him to fulfill our wishes...

children are not puppets of their parents....

-RandoMind-

I Sit Alone

Here I sit, alone

Things were said, things were done...

Time goes by and feelings ceased...

Here I sit, alone

A short dream came to an end...

Reality tasted bitter and i don't wanna wake up...

Shut my eyes tight and hope for the nightmare to end...

Here I sit, alone

Songs were sang, dreams were shared

Was it real? Was it an illusion?

Call me weak, call me stupid...

For now I sit, alone

-RandoMind-