Contradictory aspects

Oh no! Not AGAIN!
Yet another fine morning in February. Yet another morning when I have failed to live up to my own expectations, let alone others'. Why? Why? Why? I am bald, pot-bellied, out of work, friendless etc. Why am I such a loser? Can anybody ever answer?

As similar as the above paragraph is to my life story, I would like to think that I am far better of than the narrator of the above piece. I, for a change, know the answer. Yes, very optimistic indeed, wouldn't you say? The truth is that it is optimism that drives us on as human beings- striving, looking forward, hoping and desiring for something better than we alredy have. What would we be without hope and a dream? Sounds cliched? You couldn't be more right. Read on.

Good Lord! Not even these school kids pay me any respect. What's the problem with this generation? Don't they know how to value age and experience?

Ah! Experience. Perhaps more valuable than talent itself. In fact, you are unlikely to get a job nowadays without any kind of experience(read internships) in the particular line of work. But experience doesn't count for anything if you are too supine to even put it in application. For instance, this guy writing above mine. He may be old in terms of years, but he is still a kid. He wants his life to be served in a platter. He doesn't realize that LIFE is out there, there where he has never ventured out, never dared take a peek. Life is out there for him to grab hold of but he won't do so. He is slack. His imagination is dark. Showers of gloom seeped away the bright colours that once painted his life and his mind. Now he thinks he is old with enough knowledge about a world he perceives dark. O blind fool, your ignorance makes your enemies drool.

Enough! Now I must go. If the world will never acknowledge the uniqueness of my charcacter then I shall deny them my talent, my abilities, my genius. Bring forth the sword of eternal relief and let a rich soul depart to the luxurious pastures of the land of GOD.

Big words. That's all this man can use. Ah! Poor fool. He realises not the catastrophe that he brings upon this world by removing from it a senile, selfish character whose contributions to society border on nil. How we shall all weep the departure of an insignificant life, perhaps more than we do for the thousands of lives lost every year to religious extremism. Perhaps we will regret not having tried to protect this one life, maybe more than we regret not conserving the life of that magnificent animal which is sometimes aptly described to be burning bright. We may blame ourselves for not turning back to look over the shoulder when it did matter. We may look up in dismay as waves higher than imagination itself come crashing down on us, waves generated from ice that no longer is. Regret not, because you have NOW. Let THEN come as THEN did.