Morals...Storm in a teacup...
The other night, I recieved a mail form Keith prompted by the post on morals...as usual, was filled with the level of wisdom(and traces of lunacy) to be expected from him.
One of the things that we agreed upon and I have come to realise(the hard way) was the fact that doin the right thing sucks ass almost always. The thing is, why bother? Is it really so I can sleep at night? You know, not lie awake wondering about the kind of person i've become... Or is it just so I can cling to my alleged moral highground? So i can point a finger at the other guy and go "See! I'm better than HIM!!" ?
It just got me wonderin why we think we should do the right thing at all? I know that i could manipulate my way into and out of just about anything....I'd never get caught like the rest of these dumb fucks!! (I aint kiddin when i say i'm hella smart!! :-)) So why not? There have been a few allbeit extremely rare opportunities (like my moments of modesty) where I coulda gotten into something that I had no actual romantic interest in. So dearth of opportunity cant be it.
Let me tell you what i think...I could be and probably am wrong, but maybe its cos i'm ugly. (Oh, I have no delusions about this aspect!! Came to terms with it when i was like 13 yrs old, i think...)
Yeah, I know, you're wonderin, wtf is the connection? But hear me out... if I had gotten my looks from mom instead of dad, I'd have been drop dead gorgeous. Probably coulda gotten laid with the ease of breaking wind(for the less eloquent-farting). But unfortunately good old mother nature(Bitch!!) didnt see fit to grant me that. So, would i have been as obsessed with morals and doin the 'right thing' if had been better lookin? I am prone to doubt. To be absolutely fair there is a massive chance that I would'nt have bothered with it. I mean who cares about moral high ground when you're gettin some, right? But for people like us, .......the ones without the looks, the body, the charm, the money.....thats all that we have. The only thing we can cling to, is to do the right thing and hope to god that people will do the same thing for us...which ofcourse doesnt happen.
But to be fair, there have been good lookin guys that have done the right thing. Despite the fact that they could very well have gotten by without it. The one that springs to memory would be probably my oldest friend, who happened to be in love with the same girl that i was, way back in the eleventh standard. We're still the best of friends. Nuff said.
And life goes on....
One of the things that we agreed upon and I have come to realise(the hard way) was the fact that doin the right thing sucks ass almost always. The thing is, why bother? Is it really so I can sleep at night? You know, not lie awake wondering about the kind of person i've become... Or is it just so I can cling to my alleged moral highground? So i can point a finger at the other guy and go "See! I'm better than HIM!!" ?
It just got me wonderin why we think we should do the right thing at all? I know that i could manipulate my way into and out of just about anything....I'd never get caught like the rest of these dumb fucks!! (I aint kiddin when i say i'm hella smart!! :-)) So why not? There have been a few allbeit extremely rare opportunities (like my moments of modesty) where I coulda gotten into something that I had no actual romantic interest in. So dearth of opportunity cant be it.
Let me tell you what i think...I could be and probably am wrong, but maybe its cos i'm ugly. (Oh, I have no delusions about this aspect!! Came to terms with it when i was like 13 yrs old, i think...)
Yeah, I know, you're wonderin, wtf is the connection? But hear me out... if I had gotten my looks from mom instead of dad, I'd have been drop dead gorgeous. Probably coulda gotten laid with the ease of breaking wind(for the less eloquent-farting). But unfortunately good old mother nature(Bitch!!) didnt see fit to grant me that. So, would i have been as obsessed with morals and doin the 'right thing' if had been better lookin? I am prone to doubt. To be absolutely fair there is a massive chance that I would'nt have bothered with it. I mean who cares about moral high ground when you're gettin some, right? But for people like us, .......the ones without the looks, the body, the charm, the money.....thats all that we have. The only thing we can cling to, is to do the right thing and hope to god that people will do the same thing for us...which ofcourse doesnt happen.
But to be fair, there have been good lookin guys that have done the right thing. Despite the fact that they could very well have gotten by without it. The one that springs to memory would be probably my oldest friend, who happened to be in love with the same girl that i was, way back in the eleventh standard. We're still the best of friends. Nuff said.
And life goes on....
posted by Socrates (ugly bastard, wasn't he!!) | 7:51 PM
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