Once again i packed a suitcase and left - 14 t shirts and two pairs of jeans, my laptop, a copy of Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock" and a couple of thousands in the bank (thank you mom and dad). Until my flight was about to land, it hadnt hit me that i had left home, well, it never hits anyone 'cause ive always packed my bags and just left - im like the visiting relative in my home. so, blah!
3 weeks of job hunting and i get one,congratulations to me, but thats not what i wanna talk about. This blog is just random thoughts.
"God helps those who help themselves"- Hezekiah 6:1
"Love your neighbour as thyself" - Romans 13:9
Well no offense meant at all but from the first verse God sounds like a capitalist and the second makes Him sound like a socialist. This makes Him like a confused economist. To quote Toffler - " the year 2000is closer to us in time than the great depression, yet the worlds economists, traumitised by that historic disaster, remain frozen in the attitudes of the past. Economists,even those who talk in the language of revolution, are peculiarly conservative creatures. If it were possible to pry from their brains their collective image of the economy of say, the year 2025, it would probably look very much like that of 1970- only more so. Conditioning to think in straight lines, economists have great difficulty imagining alternatives to communism and capitalism."
As a kid, i was taught right from wrong. There was always a right way of doing things or talking to adults and about respecting people and then there was the wrong way. So, there was black and white, i had heard about the grey and i tripped on to that path a couple of times myself and i abused the services of white lies, but invariably i would get back to the right track because i found my comfort zone there (also i could sleep peacefully). The earth, im learning, is not a blue planet but a grey world(what a dull colour) and i fear the 'greyization' of me. i hope i find the strength in me to keep pushing myself back into my comfort zone when im with people i care about and have the ability to don the greyness when need be! and i pray that i can sleep well!
