When we are young, we’d try anything to look older than our actual age. When we are slightly older, and not just restricting to women, we realise our earlier mistakes and instead try to look younger than the real age. It is only much later that many people become comfortable with their actual age.
It seems, for some of us, we end up spending a whole time in order to really live at our actual age!?
I really don’t recall when it started, but it seems that as far as I can remember I always had this mental picture of human relationships being like the casting of fishing nets. Whenever two strangers cross paths, even just a total stranger walking past on the street, an invisible thread is cast out and then you are tied together forever. If the ‘pull’ is strong enough, someday you will meet again even if for some reasons you two eventually become separated. I suppose this is what some people would call fate?
Was over at my friend’s place tonight. We had some red wine and pizza and, after a while, started discussing relationships and in particular breakups in long distance relationships.
In this morning’s edition of a newsletter which I subscribe to, there is a story about a donkey which I found very interesting. It goes like this:
One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway, it just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well.
No, there is no spelling error in the title of this entry. And yes, there is no such word, but the choice was deliberate.
Free is such a pervasive and yet often mis-used word. For example, in accounting there is the term free cash. This certainly does not mean free cash for the taking, as in free beer! Instead this term means a sum which has not been committed, available for various purposes, an abundance of, etc.
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