[BGmusic: Girl in the War by Josh Ritter]

Quote for the day:

“All we want to do is eat your brains
We’re not unreasonable; I mean, no-one’s gonna eat your eyes”

- Jonathan Coulton’s Re: Your Brains

A sad reality of our times is how indifferent we’ve grown towards each other. Yes, we all have an opinion on the lifestyles of the rich and the famous, but you’ll be hard-pressed to find someone who cares about your run-of-the-mill Juan.

We hardly ever try to connect with people outside of our social circles.  Forget making eye contact or wishing someone a good day. We don’t do that. And when we do… okay, let me tell you about what happened to me yesterday.

See, I was in a pretty good mood because I just came from church [and post-church lunch], and I’m almost always in a good mood after church [and post-church lunch]. Plus, I just bought a CD and was in the process of buying myself a book, so if you were playing the Sims [2 - am in the process of getting myself Sims 3 hwahaha], my aspiration level would be platinum.

Anyway, so there I was, in line at the cashier at this second-hand bookstore, when I feel the man in front of me looking at me. So I look at him in the eye, and he smiles at me and I smile back. And I think, “Wow, this world isn’t so bad if strangers still smile at each other.”

He then turns to the cashier, and I check out what he’s buying, because that’s what I do in bookstores. And voila, man is buying porn.

[To the men who care: don't even look at young girls when buying your dirty magazines because it makes us feel like meat.]

And my stomach churns, and man turns to look at me again, and I turn around to leaf through the oh-so-fascinating home decorating magazines.

The end.

What we lack in compassionate people we make up for in dirty old men.

Have a good day, blog-hopper.