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 BradburyA 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, one is 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.