Seldborder 6 | Intentions VS Outcomes

A lot of times we judge people, companies and everyone around, not for their actions but for their intentions. This is the new modern life. We judge not for what we see but for what we think lies behind actions.

This is cool. If we can do it correctly, we are The People 2.0. But what, if not?

What if it is just correct when a company starts a green campaign and no one says: “They do it to make more money! They are pretentious!” What if it is just correct when someone supports everyone and no one thinks: “This is the only way to have more friends!”

Wouldn’t in that case our lives be nicer? Wouldn’t we be better people and wouldn’t we have more and more people not doing good things because they would be criticized on their behavior wrongly?

Maybe yes, maybe not.

By the way check the new video of Katy Perry. Maybe her intentions will never be known but the outcome looks good.

8th Border | I am not a racist, do I?

Imagine that scene: You are on a journey with a bus. In the middle of the trip there is a 20 min break. You notice that everyone left the bus and decide to go back and make sure your stuff are not getting stolen. When entering inside you see an awkward gypsy woman sneaking next to her kid into a pretty luxurious bag while talking rapidly to a strange language you don't understand. How do you react? Someone's stuff are being stolen!

I kinda looked her into her eyes angrily. I was shocked. Having been burglared few weeks before seems to awaken into me rough feelings. I thought: "How bad it is to use your kid as a co-theft"!

She left the stuff there and rushed to go outside. I felt like not doing anything. At least she probably didn't steal anything and having her smugged from a whole bus in front of her son was a hell of a punishment for the kid.

I thought of asking people to come and check their stuff but none was close to the bus. I sat on my seat sad thinking about the disgrace and sympathy of our civilisation that gets people pushed to steal in order to eat a piece of bread and others to steal because too much is never enough. I sat there lone and sad to only understand a while later that that gypsy woman was just another passenger of the bus travelling with her kid!

I sat sad there forever. I understand that I am deceived about racism spread around us, about the racism I could have stupidly spread also.

Bridge 6 | People Love People

People Love People. How important are "People" in that phrase?


When I was a bit younger I suggested my grandma to put in the same box a chicken and dog! I thought that the outcome would be magnificent. A dog that takes care of the ingredients of your omelete and... who knows? Maybe flying also a bit.


My grandma hopefully seemed a hell wiser than me and told me that a chicken whould never believe a male dog saying that he will take care of her kids so she would never born these hush puppies.


So, I came up with a conclusion. Roosters love chickens, male dogs love female dogs as exactly men fell in love with women! What a kid!


I was raised with that kind of the idea considering anything else as paranormal activity. Lately though I got across with many new phenomena. A woman in Germany engaged to the Berlin Wall, a guy from Japan got married to a game boy character that was about to last as much as the batteries did and I was feeling fallen apart that never thought of getting married with the green rug in my room I am so much in love with.


In the beggining I thought: "Hmmm, weird people!". Then I made jokes: "What if the Berlin Wall cheat on his wife?". But then I saw a documentary on people finding love in the face of a plastic, not cheap at all, hologram of a real person, doll.


Almost a bit of desperate of look got in my eyes. How could I now say to my grandma that she just said to me 20 years before a freaky lie? Does she know that maybe a chicken will never give birth to a dog's child but might end up finding the only love left on earth on a dog's face?


The documentary I saw called "Guys and Dolls" depicts the lives of men that end up with the choice of a plastic partner. It is so easy to judge someone like that, so easy to stick the "Retarted" label on them, but what if we are all retarted?


We are retarted. Yes, we do. We don't understand that there are people around us that they need love and this need is a universal feeling. They prefer to receive it from the leg of a chair, than from none. 


We don't seem to understand that in the phrase "People Love People", the only word deserving to be written in capitals can not be touched by "...".


Guys and Dolls

 

Selfborder 5 | Shortage and Prosperity

Greek parents share the tendency to the question: "Do you have any complaints from me? Didn't we give you everything?"

I am not sure if you know the brand "Less is More" and I am not sure if their clothes rock, but I am lately standing up for the idea that there are times that a shortage really puts us in the shoes of the people that need our help the most.

A shortage like money, health, a family person, a favorite pet, a robbed house, a crashed computer, knowledge, etc. can only be led to prosperity by the support of a person that is not just prosperous but used to be in shortage.

If you were always in "prosper" of beds, you will not easily understand that when someone, who needs to sleep at your house at night, can even sleep on the floor.

Coming back to the parents that they want to give everything to their children, I would be considering an earning part instead of only receiving.

 Nevertheless, keeping a balance ain't that easy for no one.