Sometimes it feels so happy that I could embrace the whole world. Sometimes I feel so angry that I could tear apart the things that hold the world together. Sometimes I feel so sad, I feel like joining the army and going to the desert.
Hello, people! My name is Jackrabbit Slim. I am that raving maniac who you see begging in the subways, standing alone in the intersections and going through the garbage dumps. Yeah I am the one that smells, I am the one that stinks up the neighborhood. I am the one that you don't want your children around or perhaps better, you don't want me around anywhere you go.
Well I don't mind. I wouldn't mind going away from this place anyway. You see long time back I realised that this whole world was insane. Yeah completely totally insane. I used to live a somewhat normal life then. But everywhere I turned I saw little people aspiring to be bigger and crying because they could not. I saw how people who would not put faith in their own power put faith in abysmal trinkets and unseen powers. Its strange really, how people go on like this.
One thing for instance, the bigger the lie the more people will believe it. You catch up with some person walking down the street and tell him that there are vampires in New York, chance are s/he will shrug you off and walk on, maybe even call the cops who will charge with being a public nuisance and give you a ticket. But you setup and website, manufacture some shaky proofs and claim that 9/11 was a conspiracy and the government doesn't tell you enough, chances are one out of ten people will believe you. It has something to do with human mind I guess, the more enormous and perhaps exotic the lie the more people will believe it. That I tell you is the human mind. But hey I don't blame them.
I don't blame them because that is the way we are bought up. Don't you remember your parents telling you that telling lies was bad? Didn't your first grade teacher go on about honesty and courage and friendship and all that balderdash? Didn't your preacher warn you about the fires of hell that lie in wait for you unless you repent for all the sins that some book says? Yeah while we grow up everywhere we are conditioned like mindless robots. Do this! Don't do this! Very few people retain the tendency to ask why. Because they said so! Because my parents told me not to lie before they broke up because they were cheating on one another. Because my first grade teacher told me to be honest before she eloped with the PE teacher after they had embezzled money from the school funds. Because my preacher warned me about the sins before he was transferred after that affair with the altar boy. Yeah that is how big the lies are and that is how we believe them.
But I have my version of beliefs. They are more consistent actually then all those do's and don'ts that put together the world we live in. And I believe in them unabashedly. Thats why they threw me out I guess. But I realised that I didn't want to live in this insane world anyway. So here is my book. The Book of JackRabbit Slim if your will!
1. Life is not simple. It ain't and thats the most important thing. It doesn't work like a simple give and take. You interact with hundreds of people and each of those hundreds have their own life and own problems. If you want to go through the day unscathed think about the people you are going to talk with. Think about your actions and their effect of you or on them. Think why you might help or hurt people. In fact I could go on and on about this but this is very important and in a manner of speaking this folds around all the other things that follow.
2. Doing good won't always pay you back in good. Okay this is biggest simplification of it all. Think about it? Doing good - what does that mean? Helping people? Why? So that you get that nice arm feeling in your heart - I have heard sales clerks say that to people for selling 10 cent greeting cards. Well yeah if you are a narcissist you might wanna buy that 10 cent greeting card after you spent $750 on those shoes. But its foolish to hear people lamenting on the fact that why are bad things happening to them? Well bad things happened because 1) You were careless 2) There people after you 3)Plain bad luck. Its okay to lament if it lets some stress out but thats all there is to it. There's nothing like why to you and why not to your completely identical friends. The only thing your can do when bad things happen is salvage the situation, learn from what went wrong, avoid that again and please don't be a cry-baby.
The only reason why doing good is a good idea is because it earns you brownie points. Its simple back scratching - yours and mine. The world running on extremely convoluted give and takes. Thats also why if you can get away with "bad deed" to your advantage do it. There's no fires of hell. There's no fires of hell because its just another big lie!
3. You are on your own. There's no help, the idea of luck is top shaky to depend on. So you are basically on your own. Don't go wiggling down some altar to some religious deity just because your job pulled out.
Okay will talk to you next time, they are giving away food in that charity place. Well food calls. I will bow to any god for food.
Hello, people! My name is Jackrabbit Slim. I am that raving maniac who you see begging in the subways, standing alone in the intersections and going through the garbage dumps. Yeah I am the one that smells, I am the one that stinks up the neighborhood. I am the one that you don't want your children around or perhaps better, you don't want me around anywhere you go.
Well I don't mind. I wouldn't mind going away from this place anyway. You see long time back I realised that this whole world was insane. Yeah completely totally insane. I used to live a somewhat normal life then. But everywhere I turned I saw little people aspiring to be bigger and crying because they could not. I saw how people who would not put faith in their own power put faith in abysmal trinkets and unseen powers. Its strange really, how people go on like this.
One thing for instance, the bigger the lie the more people will believe it. You catch up with some person walking down the street and tell him that there are vampires in New York, chance are s/he will shrug you off and walk on, maybe even call the cops who will charge with being a public nuisance and give you a ticket. But you setup and website, manufacture some shaky proofs and claim that 9/11 was a conspiracy and the government doesn't tell you enough, chances are one out of ten people will believe you. It has something to do with human mind I guess, the more enormous and perhaps exotic the lie the more people will believe it. That I tell you is the human mind. But hey I don't blame them.
I don't blame them because that is the way we are bought up. Don't you remember your parents telling you that telling lies was bad? Didn't your first grade teacher go on about honesty and courage and friendship and all that balderdash? Didn't your preacher warn you about the fires of hell that lie in wait for you unless you repent for all the sins that some book says? Yeah while we grow up everywhere we are conditioned like mindless robots. Do this! Don't do this! Very few people retain the tendency to ask why. Because they said so! Because my parents told me not to lie before they broke up because they were cheating on one another. Because my first grade teacher told me to be honest before she eloped with the PE teacher after they had embezzled money from the school funds. Because my preacher warned me about the sins before he was transferred after that affair with the altar boy. Yeah that is how big the lies are and that is how we believe them.
But I have my version of beliefs. They are more consistent actually then all those do's and don'ts that put together the world we live in. And I believe in them unabashedly. Thats why they threw me out I guess. But I realised that I didn't want to live in this insane world anyway. So here is my book. The Book of JackRabbit Slim if your will!
1. Life is not simple. It ain't and thats the most important thing. It doesn't work like a simple give and take. You interact with hundreds of people and each of those hundreds have their own life and own problems. If you want to go through the day unscathed think about the people you are going to talk with. Think about your actions and their effect of you or on them. Think why you might help or hurt people. In fact I could go on and on about this but this is very important and in a manner of speaking this folds around all the other things that follow.
2. Doing good won't always pay you back in good. Okay this is biggest simplification of it all. Think about it? Doing good - what does that mean? Helping people? Why? So that you get that nice arm feeling in your heart - I have heard sales clerks say that to people for selling 10 cent greeting cards. Well yeah if you are a narcissist you might wanna buy that 10 cent greeting card after you spent $750 on those shoes. But its foolish to hear people lamenting on the fact that why are bad things happening to them? Well bad things happened because 1) You were careless 2) There people after you 3)Plain bad luck. Its okay to lament if it lets some stress out but thats all there is to it. There's nothing like why to you and why not to your completely identical friends. The only thing your can do when bad things happen is salvage the situation, learn from what went wrong, avoid that again and please don't be a cry-baby.
The only reason why doing good is a good idea is because it earns you brownie points. Its simple back scratching - yours and mine. The world running on extremely convoluted give and takes. Thats also why if you can get away with "bad deed" to your advantage do it. There's no fires of hell. There's no fires of hell because its just another big lie!
3. You are on your own. There's no help, the idea of luck is top shaky to depend on. So you are basically on your own. Don't go wiggling down some altar to some religious deity just because your job pulled out.
Okay will talk to you next time, they are giving away food in that charity place. Well food calls. I will bow to any god for food.
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brisk narrative with an undercurrent of wry humour :)
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