OLS Reflections Quatre-Vingt-Trois — The Audaciously Unfun Ones

Whenever skimming through my earlier creations, sometimes years later, I am often reminded by the E. L. Doctorow quote “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia”.

After chuckling to myself, especially when it comes to the OLS Reflections — The Unfun Ones series [as well as Words I Made Up], I may be also reminded by another from Some Soulful Writing Quotes:

“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury

A fool one truly ought to be to indulge in this social schizophrenia we call writing. Now with the Internet, the lunacy might be contagious. Whatever the outcome, Creativity [can and] Shall Set You Free.

With that out of the way, here are the latest babies. Enjoint.

• Fool me once, the man will eat for a day. Lead a horse to water, shame on him who drinks for a lifetime.

• Transcend the social ladder. Choose to levitate.


 

• Looking at what people post on social media nowadays, I often feel grateful that during our wacky Hey-Daze times of going out to bars, pubs, clubs, and parties till the mid-late 90s camera phones were not a thing yet.

Equal appreciation, if not more, that TicToc was not around in the following 10 years when one was employed. Just imagining a couple of 22-year-old coworkers in the back area of a 5-star hotel reception suddenly breaking out into some random, awkward dance with lame nonsensical yet choreographed moves — mid shift — while being filmed by another compels one to shake their head and raise their eyebrows. 

 

• Do you know that the current gender-neutral, politically correct ‘woke’ term for Sugar Daddies and Sugar Mommas is “Sucrose-Glucose-Fructose Guardian”? It’s obviously Non-GMO. 

• I wholeheartedly cherish punctual people who deal in single minutes. “Meet you at 3:47”. Yey, we’re not alone! 

 

 

• We’ve got to give it up for Facebook for always striving to make their users more friendly with each other while remaining connected. Adding the “snooze for 30 days” option after years of only ‘unfollow’ is quite the smart move. Whether you unfollow people/groups/pages for excessive postings — about politics, religion, New-Age mumbo jumbo, sports, animal-rights petitions, commerciality, babies, whining, selfies — or due to ignorance, bigotry, superficiality, it’s sort of a permanent action. That is, if you don’t feel like the more dramatic ‘unfriend’ or ‘unlike’. ‘Snooze’ on the other hand is a temporary break. 

 

See, before this somewhat novel option sometimes you would manually refollow an account only to find that their first post to plague your newsfeed is an uncanny reminder of why you had unfollowed them in the first place; so you are compelled to re-unfollow them one more time — probably for good. Snoozing, however, is gentler: It gives you the chance to reevaluate the posts in your feeds once every single month. Maybe they’ve changed, maybe you have. Not bad, Facebook, not bad at all.

 

• No one gives exes the [silent] finger more than those who only start to get in shape right past divorce or separation. Simply by showing them that they were not worth their own good health nor deserved their own well-being.

 

 

• The cannibal who likes to meat people is called Cheech K. Bob. Whenever late for dinner, he usually gets the cold shoulder. Otherwise he has a ball.

 

• Sometimes while waiting in line by the grocery store cashier(s) I would catch myself watching the food and drinks people buy before looking at their physical appearance, trying to either validate or refute preconceived notions about dietary habits. This mainly occurs in North America where places tend to be bigger and there is more to observe. From skinny vegan to morbidly obese, there is also significant variety to include in my little mental study.

 

 

• “Running” for President is one bizarre expression. It implies they are either sporty or afraid — or a bit of both.

ALSO VIEW:

OLS Reflections 81 — The Flamboyantly Unfun Ones

OLS Reflections Setenta e Cinco — The Dazzlingly Unfun Ones
 

OLS Reflections Settantatre — The Flagrantly Unfun Ones

 

OLS Reflections 71 — The Frightfully Unfun Ones

OLS Reflections Sixty-Six — The Outrageously Unfun Ones

OLS Reflections 64 — The Dangerously Unfun Ones

OLS Reflections Sessantadue — The Scandalously Unfun Ones

OLS Reflections 60 — The Sensationally Unfun Ones

OLS Reflections 五十八 — The Shamelessly Unfun Ones

OLS Reflections Fifty-Six — The Notoriously Unfun Ones

OLS Reflections Dreiundfünfzig — The Playfully Unfun Ones

OLS Reflections Cinquante-et-Un — The Corruptly Unfun Ones

OLS Reflections 36 — الطبعة العربية المرحة

OLS Reflections Treinta y Seis — The Wickedly Unfun Ones

OLS Reflections — Facebook Edition

OLS Reflections — Facebook Edition Deux

OLS Reflections ثمانية وعشرون — The Tranquilisingly Unfun Ones

OLS Reflections पच्चीस — The Soothingly Unfun Ones

OLS Reflections Venti — The Quiescently Unfun Ones

OLS Reflections Siebzehn — The Peacefully Unfun Ones

OLS Reflections Quatorze — The Mitigatingly Unfun Ones

OLS Reflections Девять — The Pacifyingly Unfun Ones

OLS Reflections Seis — The Mollifyingly Unfun Ones

OLS Reflections Tre — The Mildly Unfun Ones