Stop the Ignorance

I saw that some people whose blogs are in my reading list already wrote the humanity crisis happened in Palestine. I don’t think I need to add the long list. I put some links to the videos if you have the time to stop for a while and ask the question ‘why?’ 

Ah, one more thing, let’s try to educate ourselves. Whenever we read/watch/see books/movies/news/etc; let’s make our brains work and not just eat the information right from the container.

Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: Media & the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Occupation 101

let’s talk… ssssssttttt

–people, please, watch my tone!–

People do think as they do talk. I do think as I do talk. Whatever you do, even if your intention is as pure as driven snow (as if!), there still be chance that I will thought it is harmful. As long as I think (also when I’m still talking) this will be a devil’s circle. 

I try to be a positive person. (Hey, watch my words, I used ‘try to be’ instead of ‘am’). Nonetheless, some of my deeds proven that I still cannot get rid of my negatives charges. One that I learnt in the past few months is that I need to stop talking about other people if I want to stop the mass killing (it is NOT literally speaking, puhleezzzz!!!)

Talking *with* other people cannot be avoided, especially if you’re talkative or working alone all morning and afternoon. To make my mind sane, meeting and talking with people at lunch is one of my priority. At least I can hear their stories. Once it start to talk *about* other people, then it’s time that my lunchtime is over, whatever amount of food still stay inside my lunchbox. I avoid this topic by simply talking about myself (which will make people think I’m a self-centered person) or asking them to talk about themselves (which will make them think that I’m a passive person and don’t like to open myself). Can you catch what I’m trying to say here?

The only think that I practically do–when I don’t get the temptation to join the talk *about* other people and join forces to slowly kill the unlucky ‘friend’ by backstab him/her then watch and let him/her bleeding and loose all his/her dripping blood without giving him/her chance to defend himself/herself or even see the foe’s faces–is shut my mouth, finish my tea/coffee/lunch/whatever i do as fast as possible and run for my life. *phiyuuuhh… release a deep breath*

It’s getting daring when I have a one-on-one shopping trip/lunch/tea/brunch/messenger/etc. Usually it started innocently. Hey what’s up with that guy? Hey what’s the story of this girl? And so the story goes. On and on and on. The thing is, good news only celebrated for a few sentences, meanwhile the ‘hot and wicked’ news stand for the rest of the conversation or make me click a new conversation window. See how evil I am? Beside those people I knew, my victims in this kind of mass slaughter are those so called celebrities in the infotainment show.

Failure

I was randomly reading some National Geographic (US edition) magazine back issues, when I found two very different meaning of failure.

The first failure I found was in an article titled ‘The God Particle’ from NG March 2008: “Many people at CERN are hoping they’ll get more than just answers: They’d like to uncover some new mysteries. John Ellis confided that he wouldn’t even mind if the LHC failed to find a Higgs. “Many of us theorists would find that failure much more interesting than if we just find another boring old particle that some theorists predicted 45 years ago.”"

The second one I found was from April 2008 issue, in an article called The Sahel. One of the caption of its picture said: “Chad. A sudden downpour drenches women near Abeche during the rainy season. Changing climate has already brought the Sahel not only drier weather but also rains that fall too heavily, too early, or too late: In September 2007 floods inundated the normally parched region. As they have for centuries, the Sahel people are finding ways to adapt in a land so uncompromising that failure means death.”

Failure come and go in my life yet I never really think about it as I always think it is part of a normal human circle. It is, indeed.

When I read those two articles I think about how close yet different our  little earth is. In the north people throw millions to build a big pipe across the border of two countries for the sake of knowledge, failure means a new way to learn some more fascinating things. Meanwhile in the south where people is literally have nothing failure means a lost for another soul, adding up a tally in the statistics, or maybe there’s no statistics about it, since no one bother.