When fire does not burn

From time to time you can find your own low enthusiasm reflected almost everywhere you look. This might underlie the fact that one tends to see everything the way he actually feels. Moreover, you see the things the way you like them to be. If you feel devastated, you'll find everywhere exactly the things that bring you down even more. On the other side, when you're happy, you'll get happier at every appearing reflection. One with the first condition, who meets people with the second, has got two options now. Either the happiness affects him, he gets happier and the good side won, or he just wants to rip the others head off.
The head in this metaphor stands for the luck one envies and wants to possess by his own, of course. Well, it might also only stand for his angriness about everything.

Never mind, if you have to make business with some low-enthusiasm guy, he probably hasn't got the verve to get some parts of your body either. Nevertheless, a thing you should pay attention to is that such people, although they might not attack you directly, may affect your own spirit negatively. So, if you don't have to play Shakespeare's Juliet, don't take the medicine with the skull on the label.
Evil ghosts might not even tell you that they're ghosts!

When it's not about knowledge

Some say it's all about wisdom and experience. You are what you learn to be. I know that I know little, but what does it matter? Someone who knows 50 percent more is not necessary 50 percent better. Well, it may apply to a language translation Computer. On the other hand, if you know more does it mean that you decide slower because you have to think about more aspects, or does it give you the option to think about more possibilities?
In the case of the language translation system it would reduce the evaluation speed. So what about the complex human mind? Are we really able to think harder or is thinking what we do even when we're trying to think about nothing?

Does it make us happier to know more? Do we want to be happier? I think it has nothing to do with knowledge at all. It is about specific personal demands. When the only thing you request is a glass of water, you'll be fine in most places you stray. Just try to remember that some weirdo filled 97 percent of earth surface with water that's a bit salty. However, if you make yourself a highly sophisticated 25-year career and social plan for your future, the only thing you'll probably get is a headache, gastric problems or the issue of making your last exit before reaching upper management.
Happiness must be some kind of marketing gag!

When to dive into cold waters

Sometimes, a single decision can be quite a tough task to handle. Even if it's just the question to jump into the water or to let it be. Just think of adding one, two degrees of temperature, a bit snow and an already wet diving suit. One problem is, you'll get cold feet either way you decide. Anyway, in the water not only the fish will wonder why you're doing this.
Is it better to stay out of trouble? Maybe when it comes to an issue of life and death, but on the other hand you'll miss an adventure not many can tell of. Still, making decisions based on future maybe-stories is probably a silly idea. Silly, because you could save yourself the trouble and still tell everybody about it later, like it really happened. Nevertheless, almost every time it's best to decide, even if you might realise it was a bad decision afterwards. Because, hey, no decision in front of a hungry lion and you might lose your head twice. Speaking of, it's easy said, but screaming might help at least of all. Particularly underwater. But also everywhere else, I think. It might just help to get attention of the wrong type of animal.

After all, decisions help us to evolve in life. Except you decide to move backwards eventually. Nevertheless, even moving backwards can make us better - at backwards-walking, or may help us to turn in the right direction. Whatever you do, don't try to meet your maker, cause that's a pretty huge step in any direction.
Don't yell at fish.

When we see the blood prior to the cut

It's remarkable how excellent our estimation skills are. We are able to predict precisely how somebody will react to a special action we take. Most of the time we'll be right. We just might not realise it because we're stupid. But we're right. I might also relieve you, you're not stupid - not for planning ahead, we just do it so often we don't even realise that we're doing it at all. We look, contemplate, guess and act in order to see our future the way we planned it seconds ago.
We run on neat little pattern matching algorithms with forward prediction. Based on experience we act to build up a better future - for ourselves. The better you get, the more challenging it can be.

So it might happen that we're wrong. This can be really hard to realise when you're totally sure about yourself and your decisions. It's possible to fool yourself completely with such things. For example you saw a dish on the menu but you read it wrong. You make up your own picture of what to expect. After some time, when you finally get your disappointment you think you're misunderstood. This works with food, online shopping, weapons of mass destruction - almost everything.

To question everything you do might not be a good solution. You'll only appear slow and maybe a bit retarded. I'd go for hoping the best but expecting the worst, but let me know when you're completely able to do that.
Don't ask obvious questions if you don't like the answer!

When the fish stops smelling

You might think it's bad when fish starts to smell. But it's usually worse when it stops to. The reason is that we're used to the odour of ourselves. If something starts to smell, something is wrong ..or you forgot about the biological kitchen waste. When it stops without a reason, like you getting rid of the waste, it means that something happened and you might not realise it because you're used to the not-smelling of nothing-wrong.
This is where it gets a bit complicated.
The Problem is, when something seems right, its most of the time just pretending to be right. Master in this discipline is the modern human. Some even get away by only pretending to be someone else. Actors for example. Some live good by simulating knowledge in time, functions and people. Take some managers. The whole stock market is based on theoretical values.

Whom can you really trust? Maybe shrinks, pretending to know what we're thinking? This issue goes even deeper. In the end everybody only does what he thinks is best for him. Seems nice if you support freedom of opinion and so on. The troubles start as soon as you want something different as your plumber. So, you pay people to want the same as you do?
Sometimes it's not the fish that smells!

Things that start worse end well

Compare yourself to something worse et voilà you're the lucky one. If you're not feeling better already, you've probably done something wrong. Maybe there is no-one in a worse situation than you are.
In that case you can be proud that you are the unluckiest guy - number one or at least number 4, cause what's even unluckier than being not even on the stairhead - challenged person from life, god, or whatever you belief in.
So, you got it. It's the context that makes things good or bad, humans into heroes or - whatever the opposite profession is.

The interesting thing is, your mouth tastes funny if you drink tea the whole day. Besides, also actions that didn't have an influence on other people, don't count for their general view either. For example when you played drums the first fifteen years of your lifetime, it may count for your mother as 'his wild years'. However, other people you just met would maybe say: nice he plays an instrument.
What lies on the hand is that it needs a personal session of extraterrestrial performance to change their minds into: he plays like the devil fighting against human rights. Nothing can beat frontal first person experience. Anyhow, it's a bad example, what I mean is that people don't see what the are not shown.
Never show that both aces you're hiding are hearts!

Things you would know if you had listened

Lesson number 5: no need to feel bad when you actually are sick. 3D-effects of street traffic as if you were the drums in this sweet piece of heavy metal art, getting to know every muscle of your body like during a first class Japanese special-massage and sweating like in the hottest sauna ever.
Alright, we might ignore that this kind of new age music makes us want to kill ourselves, that it is an all-I-want-to-do-is-die massage and the shivering throughout the sweating-phase, cause it takes away a lot of the romantic of the moment. In fact, it isn't romantic at all. Who said being sick is romantic? Maybe some pitiful fool finds his luck by dying with a woman in one arm, a bottle of whisky in the other. Should have listened to the do-not-draw-your-weapon voices..

Whatever, being sick is not the worst thing that can happen. Being dead is. Well, I'll drink to that. Now, normally someone would say, the worst thing is to be sarcastic and no-one able to notice. I'd like to think for myself: it doesn't matter at all. Sometimes you just have to be able to be pleased by your own inner smile.
It's easy to fool others, but hard to trick yourself!

Things that make you sick

Sick you feel, crazy things you do. It's a great experience. I'd call it awkward-crazy-body-functions-reducing-to-thinking-a-minute-late phase. Bad in every way, well again - almost. Lets say it's bad for doing things that need your full attention. Reading, writing, listening to music - basically what I'm doing right now. It's also physically challenging, if you think about stepping one step back when the bus arrives at the station. The special effect is a head full of pain without knowing where to put it. Not word-for-word, for this evolution took responsibility. Or every other creationing-everything-shattering event or 'man' you place after saying 'I believe in '.
By the way, for the bus-scenario not only your head will hate you. Anyway, my favourite is 'I believe in people'. Cause, come on, not even they believe in themselves.

The thing is, my head tells my inner voice to shut up. At least, nobody tells my head to shout. Oh, I'll turn the music down a bit. Hard rock sounds like head shot. Currently, in every sense of the word. Sometimes the only thing you should to do is to listen. And that's what I'm going to do.
Thank people, it's Monday in less than 6 hours!

Things you don't want to do

Some people call what they do and don't like work, and what they like to do fun. I think that's just wrong. If you'd prefer to do something else, you would actually do that. It's just that so many components play a part in the whole 'things' game that you wouldn't decide to go fishing instead of work. Not only because I hate fishing - I'd really prefer it, if my work would be sitting in a bank counting money. No, its because we like working. We like it even if we don't say it out loud.
People love getting money, to bore themselves to death or to flush their hearts by stress. Which jackass is not proud to say 'sorry, busy right now'. Busy my ass!

Don't get me wrong. I by myself like my work. But I'm pretty sure I also like everything else I do, otherwise I would find a way to prevent myself from doing it. I mean, washing socks is really annoying. Then again, sometimes I'm happy when I don't have to place them next to my shoes in an upright position. This reminds me, evolution did a great job on placing our feet and nose at a maximum distance to each other.
Anyway, maybe we don't do everything with pleasure 7 days a week. Nevertheless we more or less like what we're doing and so use our emotions to use others.
Not even shellfish is as selfish as man is!
(I'd really like a medal for today's bottom line)

Things with the useless factor

When you find a new 'something', the chances that it is junk are pretty high. In fact, take the world wide crap. Probably 99 per cent of it is useless waste. A waste of money and time. Take this blog. It even features unessential mental trash. I assume you could even fill a whole dictionary with synonyms for rubbish.
On the bright side, it shows where our civilisation is heading. The Inuit got 8 hundred words for snow, we got them for our garbage. Alright, it's a never-ending hoax, they only have as much as any other language knows. But that's not the point.

All goes back to Mr Human - the hunter and collector. Personally, I doubt the hunter feature as humans seem too lazy to me since right from the start. However, I really trust in the collection business of mankind. I mean, look at eBay and weird burned bread, old chewing gum or whatsoever. Everybody collects things that would be useless without the personal context. Example: take nuts, leave the squirrel, add a nut allergic and again, add an angry wife with lust to kill. Even nuts make sense.

So the context is the key to success. Change it and you got a whole lot of new opportunities - or a ton of crap.
Sell your fallen out hair as medicine!

Things you believe to believe in

So it was not until I chose the wrong 9, that I realised something. Everything might be right, if only you look at it the right way. All makes perfect sense to me now. I mean, if you have the perfect reason to kick somebody's backside - why shouldn't you? If you can probably get something precious, why not do a small favour - by kicking somebody's butt?
And so it goes down to persuade somebody - anybody about their belief in various asserted values. Ah, aren't we easy to figure out? Well, it's not all that easy. Since we were gifted with our own vertically challenged point of view, we can merely imagine different ones. Therefore we predict and persuade, we want and we obtain.

The point is, nothing really is for sure. Concluding, the majority is right? No, well, maybe. If most women wear high-heeled shoes, it doesn't mean that they are comfortable. Also, it doesn't mean they are foolish suffering for the opposite sex - or the same - who knows these days. Neither, this implies that men are dumb for preferring women with feet-deformation intentions.

Probably, everything we might conclude is that the majority has a good point in the specific belief where they dominate. Anyhow, when the majority thinks arsenic tastes neat, I'd love to be in opposition.
Even even looks odd from one side!

Things you don't mind to lose but still regret

I have to admit, my smalltalk skills were never perfect. Though, there was this time I could talk about all the small, unimportant and pretty much less interesting things than my parents sex life.
It seems that I've lost it all. Don't get me wrong, but what question is more useless than the one where you ask a girl in a club if she really likes to listen to this kind of music? Sometimes, I tend to go with 'Do you want to skip the talking part and switch directly to the fluid-exchange?' like performed in the movie 'In a beautiful mind'. But really, the woman of today would not flush and run away anymore, but more fatal, kick you in your basement.
What's wrong with today's conversations? Everybody wants sophistication but nobody wants to think or do anything for it.

The whole conversation-going-down-the-drain maybe sticks out most in nowadays chat rooms. Ever talked to a 14-year-old who's ability is to ask 10 questions within 10 seconds and then awaits to answer questions with yes and no? I mean, if the first 10 questions would even be interesting, you could maybe have at least two minutes of fun. On the bright side, its pretty easy to find out if someone is below the legal intercourse age. But never mind, in fact with most people you wouldn't even want to talk in real life anyways. Not to speak of the more fleshy things.

Let's be honest, everybody is against stereotypy if it's about racism, but when it comes to the decision of things, most people go with the masses.
It's hard to be special if you want to be ordinary!