I struggled to put my thoughts together for this post because I was trying to make a connection between the two occurrences that happened. And I have yet to be able to put them together but I will try my best to get the message across.
Anyway, it's sometimes a sad and scary world that we live in. I don't know what else to say for that but it's true. There will always be people who try to take advantage of you, who try to pull you down when you're not careful, who try to play with your head, who try to make you quit - and all for one reason - self-interest. Some think that this entire life is based on that - on the prestige one gets or earns, on the number of times one manages to pull another down, on that instant moment when one is able to prove another wrong and then continue to humiliate. It IS really what certain people do or really live for. I don't really wish to make it sad but then the struggle really comes onto the person victimized in the process. There is such a fine line of what the victim should do - should we do something about it? Fight them? Or the easier thing is to let things be? I mean, either way a person chooses to take, would be a challenge.
The sad thing is I have been victimized myself and I freak out each time it happens to me but no, I have learnt of the ways to get through it, whether healthy or not, I'm not too sure. But what is sadder, is the fact that I see people who I care becoming a victim - sometimes due to ignorance but sometimes having been aware. It is sad. I saw someone went hysterical today because he not only found out, but he expressed his feelings that he had been taken advantaged of and that people mistrust him and think that he could be a bad person. It was painful to watch but there was almost nothing I could do; there was nothing my friends and I could do but to listen to him, sympathize and promise to help as much as we can. But it's a tough call from our end, yet I guess we would try our best. It's just so sad, that's all.
And then there was something else that I reflected upon. There is really nothing or anything that is humanely possible to be within the control of a person - it just doesn't exist in our species. Some things are just the way they are, they happen for a reason, they become a test upon the individual and finally, one is being forced to get out of it. And then eventually, it rests upon that 'thing' that we all have different names for - some kind of force, a being - corporeal or maybe not, an inspiration, a concept of perfection - some of the stuff we all call that one thing I refer as - God in my dictionary; which could be different in yours. But really, there's many things in this world we can try to do/fix but then eventually it comes to a point, there's nothing more that can be done and all that is left is that hope that something would work out - a miracle to assist us, a tinge of luck, a breeze of confirmation; it is scary when I think about it.
A Pre-Socratic, Protagoras once said, "Man is the measure of all things" saying that man really govern all which is true and was really true in the past, where man was trying to break the various barriers created by nature, to experiment and learn and continually strive to create the world we live in today. But I still think that Protagoras was not so right because what I think is that man today just attempts to govern all, but really, we can't, not all, and that there is constant hubris - that excessive arrogance by human beings that we always have the ability to overtake or be superior to nature and the universe. I'm really not suggesting anyone to quit on life but really, try and try hard and when there's almost nothing left to be done or nothing else one can think of, maybe it's a sign - a sign to take a break and hope for that force to lead the way and show an opening.
Have a great week and a great last few weeks of 2012. Don't forget to make it wonderful (Kinda reminding myself too) =)
