Quick, Quick, The Meaning Of Life Discovered!

March 5th, 2010 by Matthew Michael

What Is The Meaning of Life
There once was a little boy whose mom told him the key to life was happiness. When he was in school one day the teacher asked the students to write down what they wanted to be when they grew up. Some kids wrote down Fireman or Policeman, some Actors, others Lawyers or Astronauts but he wrote, “When I grow up I want to be Happy”. The Teacher told him he didn’t understand the assignment. He told her she didn’t understand life.

Every now and again I find myself listening or reading people’s opinions and debates about the meaning of life, the purpose…it’s bound to happen, specially if you interact a lot with intellectuals, curious minds or enjoy reading about the history of philosophy.It must be one of the oldest questions in existence, in fact it quite possibly played a role in the creation of religions; “Why are we here?”, “What are we meant to do in this life? I feel lost”, “Where do we come from?”, “What makes me so deserving to have been born? is this life like a qualification test to be considered for a job after death? follow the 10 commanding sinless instructions and I’m accepted or punished?”.

I can’t help but laugh sometimes, asking “Why am I alive?” seems like a question coming from those who are bored with life, the miracle of life with all it’s beauty and interesting things isn’t enough and we want more?. Do you ever go to the doctor and say; “Doctor, why am I healthy?”, or do you only go you’re sick?. “Why am I alive?”.
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Wisdomless Intelligence Is More Ignorant Than Stupidity Itself

February 7th, 2010 by Matthew Michael

Wisdomless Intelligence
“Good grades, good test scores…*nods head*, good kid!”

Those were the exact words uttered by the Principle of a school I was interviewing for. The memory of how he said it stuck with me because in that moment I realized intelligence (intellectuality really but many confuse it) was considered a quality that made the perception of any persons character overall better.I’ve found myself many times in situations where I used intellectual intelligence as a weapon to upset people, the earliest I remember was my year 7 teacher saying; “You’re lucky to have been born Matty you should feel special”, “special?” I asked, “Out of 500 million sperms, one managed to fertilize one of my mothers eggs.Woah! what are the odds?”, it wasn’t only back then when I went to Spain recently I was unlucky to get one of those hair dressers who starts giving you his opinions on whats wrong with the country and the government, it got to a point where I just snapped; “It’s a pity all the guys who REALLY know how to run the country are too busy trimming hair…”, rightfully enough he didn’t take it well and gave me a buzz cut I had to hide by wearing underwear on my head for the rest of the trip as I dislike caps and couldn’t find beanies in summer.

On the plane back it was no exception, a nice looking girl sitting in the seat on the opposite side of the aisle became quite friendly and asked; “That’s a cute unique accent, where are you from?”, a normal person would proceed to do small talk, not me…”I’m from a land where we never a finish sentence with a preposition =|”, I think she spat on my steak while I slept cause it tasted minty and she was chewing gum, oh and not to long ago I was invited to a barbeque, “I’d love to join your primitive tribe, as we stand around the burning fire sharing exciting trivial adventure stories, celebrating with a feast the recently caught prey”, I could go on and on.

I keep having to tell myself in those don’t-feel-like-socializing mood moments, “Matty you’re acting quite arrogant for something that was pushed face first out of a vagina” (still find that word funny, almost as giggle worthy as boob).

But why do we value others intelligence so much? does possessing intelligence make a person better in the judgment of good from bad? does it make anyone but themselves happier?
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The Beginners Guide To Body Language

January 26th, 2010 by Matthew Michael

Learn How To Successfully Read Body Language
Body language is extremely useful in your day to day life, apart from being more successful at life in general (since the whole world is run by people all with hidden thoughts and agendas), it can help you at socializing such as making better impressions to appear likable or friendly, when dating to learn love interest signs and flirtations, in your career, job applications and interactions, to win at a game of poker or chess, finding out if someone is lying to you, at changing your emotional state by using the law of cause and effect, but most important of all, to read in between the lines of any given situation and have a more in-depth awareness of what is happening around you.
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Reflected Puddles Of Thought Our Fragile Hearts Must Be

December 12th, 2009 by Matthew Michael

Insensitivity Is Bliss
Have you ever sat down and from a distance, watched a homeless person asking for money? It’s one of the most interesting sights you can find in our culture…, most people walking by the bum will lock their face towards the ground or horizon trying to avoid eye contact at all cost with the hobo and ignore them completely, the speed of their steps will increase, some even go to the length of pulling out their mobile and pretend having a conversation…the ones who give money will quickly throw in a coin and walk away without much thought, nobody sat down with the homeless woman (in my case), took her hand into their own and asked her story of how she ended up there or tried to get get to know her more.

Why? It’s too much…, we have enough problems of our own to have to solve and worry about other strangers, because there is just too many horrible injustices in the world happening and we can’t cope with having to be aware of all of them, we feel helpless and overwhelmed, so it’s easier to switch off…to avoid those things, to only think of our own and become ignorant to everything else, because ignorance is bliss right? Well so is insensitivity…
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Words Are Spoken By The Listener

December 4th, 2009 by Matthew Michael

Yay!, I Can Turn On The Oven!!!
Take Off The Disguise Matty!It all started last week when I could find nothing to eat, lingering around the kitchen in the unsuccessful search for food through cupboards and the refrigerator…I returned to the fridge a few minutes later hoping something new would have somehow materialized (you know we all do it…), having hit rock bottom I thought to myself, “Geeze!, I need to learn how to cook, last time I tried…the flies pitched in to fix the ripped screen doors and the cockroaches hung themselves with my dental floss =|”.My dreams of Martha Stewart one day inviting me to live with her are slowly fading away and though I’ll keep my fingers crossed, I’ll have to do something about it in the mean time.Off I went to sign myself up to a local cooking class, of course as always with my paranoias and what not I thought it would be a good idea to go in disguise but as you can see from the picture above my incognito attempt wasn’t to subtle and the cooking teacher (Mrs Xu) asked me to remove the wig and glasses at once.

Evil Mrs Xu Cooking TeacherThis was one pissed off looking Asian lady…the first thing she asked us was to make something simple and explain it to her, so off we went and did our thing and before I knew it the time was over and it was our turn to explain it to her…what she left out however was the fact that we had to do it in front of the whole class =|.The guy to my left seemed to be as nervous as I was when his turn came to go up there, Mrs Xu asked him, “Please explain your dish”, Andrew I think he was called said, “It’s, uhhhh, a hamburger? I don’t know”, Mrs Xu’s angrily nodded him off and called me up, as I swallowed some saliva and thought to myself “bloody hell…why did you go and make a hamburger/sandwich as well!?”, I walked the corridor in between the work benches experiencing what it must feel to walk the green mile, I looked at her as she saw my plate and you could clearly see the expression “oh, not another one!” pass through her mind…you’d be surprised at what the sight of an Asian lady frowning her eyebrows, clinching her fist around the chopping machete and widening her eyes can do to you…I was inspired! if only to save my hand from ending the main course of her next meal, I said: “…delicately braised tips of beef, ground, in a marinate of spice mayonnaise, topped with a thick, soft, creamy tang of melted cheddar, counterweighted by the crisp, cool freshness of water mist lettuce and sprouts will all dance gently in your mouth with the surprising rhythm of a pickle…”.It actually looked pretty good, pitty it tasted like what I’d assume grass after a cow regurgitates it would taste like but she’ll never know…

From my short lived (yeah Martha, still waiting…) cooking lessons though I gained many experiences which left me ponding, the secrets behind words, quotes and why I appear to be so random =)
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