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Saturday, June 20, 2009
And so... yesterday marked the end of my 5-day Stop-Motion stint in school. Let's just say that my team made some progress. Significant word here is, 'some'. I'm especially proud of this little bed which I made myself, after all, it's only made out of mostly chopsticks and ice-cream sticks. This bed will be where Campre (The main character of the video) and his wife will be sleeping before their city goes up in flames.
And this is the cupboard where we all keep our stuff. I can really see that we guys certainly do not have the knack for neatness...
Overall, the whole of the 5 days was considerably fun. We grooved along to podcasts of The Mr Brown Show while we did our work and not forgetting many tongue-in-cheek comments made by many of us to lighten up the mood. Let's hope that this project would be a success.
" Ivan, I really feel that you should just find yourself a nice girl and settle down. *Throws in a mischevious glance* "
Onward.
Deceive.
Deceit.
Decoy.
Inversion.
Immoral.
Inhumane.
Lies.
For this list of words above, it starts with 'deceive', and it ends with 'lies'. Mendaciousness is but a mere vicous cycle, and the words in between are but a fraction of its side-effects.
Ever had anyone lied to you?
Yes? No?
Well, was it painful?
For the most of us, it would be a 'yes'. But as for pain, I'm not referring to the times when your parents promised to buy you something you want yet they went back on their word eventually. That is no pain, that is merely a reason to cause a bout of screaming and shouting at our parents when we were younger.
As we all know, most people do things for a reason, unless you belong to IMH, that is. And the most oftenly used reason for carrying out deception would be to call it a 'white lie'. Just what is a white lie? According to the dictionary, it would mean: "a harmless untruth'. However, we cannot really correctly judge the harmlessness of a 'white lie' everytime we say it. So the main point is, just how harmless is a 'white lie'? How about this, someone kept the secret of a dying loved one from you for fear that you would break down (Very drama-like, I know. C'mon, it's just an example.) and therefore felt that it was only right that you shouldn't know about it. But what happens when the worst strikes? One can only imagine. Bear in mind this, The truth may be dangerous, but lies are fatal.
There is a fine line between truth and fabrications. Between black and white of anything, a grey area lies. Henceforth, we have what we call the 'distorted truth'. Any idea what it is? A piece of distorted truth is information that is partially true, however, it is usually tailored to suit the perpetrator's selfish motives. Evil as it sounds, this is actually common. Lawyers do it all the time, they rephrase an accusation in such a way that he cannot be charged for slander or contempt, just so that he could coerce the defendant's witness in blabbing out something to his interest. Let's use a more daily-life example... Now tell me, when was the last time you gave an excuse to your parents or friends that you were busy with something else and unable to attend to their request just so that you could have the time to yourself? Was it a lousy excuse? We may criticise liars, but who are we to look away from ourselves?
Back to what I said earlier about the agony resulting from deception. If a lie is minor and can be resolved after a seemingly small dispute, then perhaps no major emotional trauma is inflicted. So, yes, what I'm about to enter here is the pain that comes from lies of emotional origin. Lies that cause a bleeding gash in your heart mostly have to do with relationships. For those of you who read the news, try to recall the frequency at which you see articles like, "Man, age **, kills wife and her lover." What may have driven them to it? An injured beast is one who is at it's most fearsome point where it may lunge at any moment. People like these, probably forced against the wall after a huge emotional shock, tend to do the unspeakable. Their imaginations begin to tear the person apart with its countless suggestions of worst-to-happen situations. Something which we may never get to understand...for now.
Untruths are something which we can never avoid in this scheming world of ours, so it now all boils down to how we are able to deal with it. The same goes for heartbreaks, it would pain me to know anyone whom I am acquainted with to drop into depression over a lost lady who has set her eyes higher, vice versa for the girls. Keep your head about you, and I think you have him.
"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to the truth..." -Kahlil Gibran.
