Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Questioning Quotes

" a good example is the best sermon"

seriously, totally not true. i love citing close examples and quoting precedents to make justification, after all, we learn from experiences and observations and history, isn't it? no, i'm not saying that i'm a stick in the mud and follow precedents to a T but i think they make good references. some people just cannot comprehend morals of the stories, not pausing to look at the success and failures of past precedents.

i guess what i'm trying to say is that i do wish more people would learn their own craft well, and if they're already good at it and even better, possess a talent for their craft, then STICK TO IT! 

you can surely have your own opinions but you surely can't issue a decree on the judgement of a subject you have no expertise in.

to you couple of very stubborn folks, i spend alot of time with you and i truly place you in my innermost circle but you have egos the size of an ostrich egg. you really cannot be right in every opinion that you decide to produce. i respect your view but your justifications if any, aside from your thoughts are pretty much moving in a single track. 

you draw well, only in still life. you paint with the finest paint because the finest paint should be the best. you paint in a disarray, in random parts of your canvas but the image will not meet. you force it to come together only because it has to.

you talk about heart and soul and passion but i see an absence in soul. i see a sense of misguidance and you all seem a little lost, even if you do not care to admit it. 

and now I reflect. i always try to view any situation from different angles and debate with myself on the why and the how -!; the impacts. i appear to most as nonchalant but most times, deep there somewhere, i've made a habit of concluding an analysis of the situation and planning a calculated move, even if it may look like a random step. i am quick to make judgements but at the same time, it only took me a short time to make my analysis from the different views that comes to mind.

i was about to question myself if i were stubborn and unwilling to listen to viewpoints from others. ok, no. if you can convince me with a rationale and justification better than the one i gave myself, i accept it. though, i must say, at times, that could be really tough because i always have convincing rationales with much basis for myself. 

guess that means then, that the others could be thinking in the same manner. a difference of opinion, comprehension and understanding, perhaps viewing the subject at the angles that they are standing, and not adjusting to see from another side.

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