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The piece of bread that fell wrong side up

We all have a tendency to believe that everything we do will turn out wrong, because we think we do not deserve to be blessed. Here is an interesting story about precisely that feeling.
A man was quietly eating his breakfast. Suddenly, the piece of bread which he had just spread with butter fell to the ground.

Imagine his surprise when he looked down and saw that it had landed buttered side up! The man thought he had witnessed a miracle. Excited, he went to tell his friends what had happened, and they were all amazed because when a piece of bread falls on the floor, it always lands buttered side down, making a mess of everything.

‘Perhaps you’re a saint,’ one friend said. ‘And this is a sign from God.’

Soon the whole village knew, and they all started animatedly discussing the incident: how was it that, against all expectations, that man’s slice of bread had fallen on the floor buttered side up? Since no one could come up with a credible answer, they went to see a Teacher who lived nearby and told him the story.

The Teacher demanded one night to pray, reflect and ask for Divine inspiration. The following day, they all returned, eager for an answer.
‘It’s quite simple really,’ said the Teacher. ‘The fact is that the piece of bread fell exactly as it should have fallen, but the butter had been spread on the wrong side.’
-Paulo Coelho

tell me anybody who isn't guilty of the same kind of thoughts?
that there is a "must" to everything?
we always believe that things MUST go wrong, very wrong.
even the teacher thinks the same way,
he thinks that just because the butter didn't make a mess,
there must be something wrong, a catch to it,
in the end, he thought he had come up with a perfect solution,
that the man had made a mistake.
(like yeah? there's a right side to spread butter?)

this story make us all seem a wee bit stupid don't you think?
like we are all ignorant yound kids, who don't know shit.
but get a load of that, it's just an example.
we do have thoughts like that, it's just that it happens unconciously.
when things go wrong, we always expect it to be extremely bad,
like we are cursed.
we think we're so jinxed that if it's only a minor setback,
we think that a miracle has happened
or maybe there's something we terrible haven't noticed.

this teaches us, to learn to accept everything,
good or bad, and not only be comfortable
with negetive "must"s that have haunted us throughout our lives

Equal rights?

i know i'm gonna start a war now,
but please, feel free to comment,
guys or girls alike.

BUT,
let's see, we all know that's what girls ask for,
how many girls have you heard
flinging word "chauvinist" at you?

or how many girls have you heard,
claiming there should be "equality"?

they only see the bad side of everything,
thinking they are underestimated,
thinking they are repressed and undermined by society,
claiming they are of the "new age",
the 21st century,
they too, should get equal rights.

but they do not see that equal rights,
can mean many things,
i shall list them down.
- they must stop expecting guys to give in.
- they must now foot their own bills.
- crying no longer helps.
- whining doesn't either.
- carry their own shopping bags.
- pay for the usage of household utilities.
- share same toilets.
- do NS (in some countries)
- stop hitting guys or expect to get the blow back.
- don't expect guys to help open doors
- don't expect guys to go whereever they wanna go.
and many more, i'm just too lazy to continue

as you can see, you know all these actions that guys do,
they don't notice the importance,
they are - by nature - physically less inclined than men,
so they lose out in many ways,
even in the bible, it is stated that wives must submit,

when guys are "chauvinistic", bask in the love man,
why complain? they don't allow you to work,
let you stay at home, with the exception of caring for the child,
the fruit of your love, and free-load off their hard work,
why not?

guys open the doors for you,
when you whine, we go wherever you please,
do whatever you want,
not because we look down on you,
but because we respect the fact that you're women,

when we pay for your bills,
burn holes in our pockets,
you don't see it,
you think you are a strong and capable individual,
ladies, where do you get your diamonds?
for some, i must say,
you have your own money.
but for most of them,
where do you get your shoes,
your house, your bags, your cars, etcetera?

bask in the love girls, guys aren't being chauvinistic,
even if we were, you get all the attention,
live with it, enjoy it, quit complaining.

Music.

my, yours and everyone else's escape.
we all need some time away from reality.
music, provides the best form of escape.

a proof of this is the way people react differently with music.
when you're in a train/bus or anywhere with lots of people,
and you just stare at them,
some people will get pissed off,
but when they see you with your headphones,
they will think you're otherwise engaged
and they calm down and get back to their own business.

when you're at pubs,
with that slow, soothing music,
you seem to be able to talk to your friends so much better,
your heart seems to be all so ready to bare itself,
you feel so secure,
you know you are saying too much
but you don't really care, you trust them.

music, the sweet escape.
it's really scary, how people can stay silent,
stay silently listening to music.
so much that they never socialise,
we are currently facing a new generation of musical fanatics,
they will so galdly listen to their mp3 and ignore the world.

people will start to become stranger to each other
whilst they drown in their music blasting from the headphones.
communication skills will go down the drain,
an impending spell to zombify everyone.

a warning my friends,
don't run away from reality with music,
live healthily, talk to people,
don't immerse yourself in music!

Desire or need?

there's an old saying,
"an old monkey never puts his hand in the hole".

the logic behind is that in India,
hunters used to cut tiny holes in coconuts,
placed a banana in them
and proceeds to bury the whole thing.
a monkey will then come up,
puts his hand in to grab the banana
only to find that it has been trapped
as his clenched fist was too huge to remove from the hole.

now, he could have released his grip,
but he feels that there is a need for that banana,
and stubbornly chooses to hang on
and fight a battle he can never win,
struggling to pluck his hand with the banana out.

this applies to humans too,
we often feel that there is a need for something,
so much so that we become imprisoned in some way.
the luring entrapment of this impending "need"
has always imprisoned inexperienced people,
with them thinking that they can satisfy the "need".

now, don't you agree that the monkey
could have let go and found another source of food?
yet it stubbornly thinks it needs this one.
just like us,
the monkey and humans,
we haven't learnt to differentiate
between needs and wants.

wants are desires,
we will always convince ourselves that we need it,
so we fight so hard for it,
we never see that we have trapped ourselves
either in debt or in the quest,
to satisfy a desire,
IF A DESIRE COULD BE SATISFIED,
IT WILL CEASE TO BE A DESIRE.
we will never achieve what we want,
if we don't learn to let go.

Time to Live and Time to Waste.

Is it only me? or do you all think we're moving too fast?
cause look at us, constantly rushing ourselves.
year, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds.

that's how we measure our time.
everyday, we seem to think that 24hours do not suffice.
we slog our guts out be it work or school,
only to go home and continue slogging.

we think our time is all about work.
what about our lives?
does it mean that being in one of the fastest cities,
the citizens cannot rest too?

to me,
we got 24hours in a day,
and infinite moments to go along,
and anything can happen in a moment.

but because of how the world's changing now,
we start to measure time,
and by the hours, minutes and seconds.

people fail to notice that in this way,
there is never enough.
time cannot be measured this way.

when we are happy, time passes fast
as the moments come quickly.
when we are low, it goes slow
as the moments drag itself.

we cannot hang on to every minute every second.
but the moments, forever stays in us.

we don't treasure the hour,
but we treasure all the moments we had.
let's not waste out moments away..

Expression

why do we all submit to the negetivities of the world?
why can't we see things on a nicer plane?

Man, we are all like volcanos,
hot steaming lava without a cover,
when we build up too much pressure,
we naturally overflow and let everything out.
when all of these is gone,
a new scenery is created,
we allow new life to form.

but -sadly- most people try to cover it up,
they spend so much of their energy trying so hard,
so hard just to cover a natural occurance.
they have to spend so much of their vigor
that they do not have any left for creativity,
their lives become mundane.

then we all complain about how negetive life is.
but we fail to realise,
we fail to see that if we allow this volcano to erupt,
when all the smoke clears, a new scenery is formed,
new life will grow around us,
we will experience and absorb new energies around us.

when will we ever learn?
when will we learn that true freedom is letting go?
when we let out all that is in us we're actually
detroying all the negetive energies around us
and letting new and -possibly- positive energies grow.

Rebuilding The World?

A father was trying to read the newspaper,
but his little son kept pestering him.
Finally, the father grew tired of this and,
tearing a page from the newspaper
- one that bore a map of the world -
he cut it into several pieces and handed them to his son.

‘Right, now you’ve got something to do.
I’ve given you a map of the world and I want to see if you can put it back together correctly.’
He resumed his reading,
knowing that the task would keep the child occupied for the rest of the day.

However, a quarter of an hour later, the boy returned with the map.
‘Has your mother been teaching you geography?’ asked his father in astonishment.
‘I don’t even know what that is,’ replied the boy.
‘But there was a photo of a man on the other side of the page,
so I put the man back together and found I’d put the world back together too.’
-Paulo Coelho

now, what is the moral of this story?
i know i'm trying to analyse a professional writer's work
and may have made mistakes,
so if you really think that i have indeed commited fallacy,
feel free to criticise.

We can view this story on the surface and in depth,
in both ways, we still gain a little knowledge.

On the surface level,
the boy, despite his lack of knowledge on geographical studies,
he has indeed pieced the map back together.
how has he managed to do it?
he turned the map around and pieced another picture together,
the picture of a man, obviously enough,
he should know the generic outlook of a man.
that goes to show that this child,
has found an alternative solution to the problem that was posed to him,
he had not chosen to ponder aimlessly, and not progress.
This, teaches us to look at things from different angles,
and not just the plain and simple one degree view.
when you think that the problem is unsolvable,
change your perception and perhaps,
you might find a solution.

In depth,
knowing Paulo Coelho as a spiritual writer,
his writings are bound to be philosophical most of the time.
the words from the boy,
"i put the man back together and found i'd put the world back together too."
struck me as something that contained a hidden meaning.
Man, can be refered to as humanity,
and now, the world is at shambles,
not exactly the world but look at the Iran war,
the Tamil Tigers bombings in Sri Lanka,
all this are signs of a divided world.
If somehow, people are united as one, peace would resume,
hence the world working together at peace.

human, we always think of how we can shape the world,
but rarely do we see a need to change ourselves,
we are so full of ourselves that we disregard the need to put ourselves in place,
when all humans do a part in correcting themselves,
the world will be so much a better place.

Think about it, i might be right,
i might be wrong. feel free to critisise or tag about it.