i’m in prep right now,
ponderin to myself how it is something relatively unintimidating can cause such great fear.
In this case it happens to be these..urm…Flying termites(weh, i don’t know what they’re called).
In my view, they are equivelant to flying omena;
harmless and tasty(to most).
However, take 100 of these…termites(c u tell me what they are called) in a library and voila! recipie for chaos.
Take for example, just a few minutes ago, an individual i won’t name(u owe me one) was quite readily minding their work, when all of a sudden one of these..termites(*dramtic pause*) planted itself on her face,
causing her frantic attempt to smite the…termite.
However, during this spontaneous effort, she seemed to be so perterbed that she cut the cheese (is there a diplomatic term that doesnt make me sound like a toff?). yeh, we all laughed (U GUY!), but what caught my attention is how for that moment, these TERMITES ceased to exist.
Why is it that in the height of emotion, we filter out all the nonsensical disturbances around us, but as soon as the emotion passes, what we didn’t give a flip about takes centre stage?
Do we overly amplify issues? and if we do, why?
So i began to be all philosophical wonderin why we fear a large number of such insignificant beings. Can they really make an impact?
Yanni, I pictured myself with a whole plate of Nyam-Chom before me.
Would I be detered by a single fly? hell no!
But by 100?…
I better leave it there before I chizi…
Fear
May 18, 2007 by kivuts
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well my dear friend in all fairness this predicament that you seem to be going through could end in a few words, i read somewhere that said a boy always thinks his mum is the best cook, so we may have contrasting ideas about the world but i think in a sense the guy that coined that phrase also had and ending to it that says until they move out into the real world. am looking at this ‘termite’ problem meterporhriclly and stating that fear is actually psychological and not just based on number but the way a person percieves the consequences of the after effect of the ensuing action.
i would like to take you back to the person that ‘let off some steam’ after noticing that a harmless termite was crawling on her forehead.in the person’s defence i would think she/he was aroused temprorarily by the innate fact that although it was not 100 but 1 ‘termite’ she had already conceived that maybe 1 can actually cause some damage. so there is a list of endless possibilities to this and finally maybe, just maybe the person in question is a lil ass CHICKEN!!!!