StrangersNotAllowed

So here is the second entry of my daily dose of life's lessons.

What did I learn today?

I was thinking about it on my way home while I was on a bus along EDSA. Then I came to the conclusion that I might not have learned anything new today...yet I still wracked my brain trying ot figure out what I would put in this entry. And then my best friend Basha texted me and told me that she successfully survived her first day at work. And that's when it hit me that finally I have something to write about before I go to sleep tonight.



So what DID I learn today?

I learned that people's view in life is changing. It's temporal. How we view life is dependent on our current situation.

Let's take for example my personal case. I hate my life right now and I would give just about anything to escape and have a brand new life where this horrible feeling that I am feeling right now does not exist.

Basha, on the other hand, looks at life right now in a neutral kind of way where the amount of pain and happiness are at an equilibrium. She still has not gotten over Paolo yet there is something that gives meaning to her life and that is her work right now.

It reminded me of something my favorite teacher told me way before. We could compare life to a strip of film... a motion picture where the captured meanings are different for each and every viewer that watches it.

Say the film is Before Sunrise (Ethan Hawke and a french girl whose name I completely forgot). .

A broken hearted person who's longing for company will see only the bitter side of the film. The heartbreak that the two lovers have to experience by saying goodbye after spending an entire day together.

A person in love will be seeing the romantic side of the film, focusing on the kissing scenes and the phenomena that may have lead to the two characters falling in love with each other.

A person who is fond of intellectual inquiry will be focusing however on the witty conversations and fruitful exchange of thoughts that happened between the two


Just one film and yet, millions of interpretations can sprout from it because of our differences in beliefs, values and state of existence.


critical intersubjectivity.


That is what each of us should always bear in mind. Respect how others view a certain situation, a particular object or an entire social system. Garbage to us is food for the scavengers. Wealth can refer to either happiness, money or both.


critical intersubjectivity.


respect for people. respect for society.



and I end my incoherent piece here. Just getting thoughts out of my head.