Do We Really Need To?
I felt much warmed up after finishing the clothes ironing and left over pork curry from last night. No need for a heater, as I prefer au naturale approaches to climate management (okay, except for the thermostat heater tube for the goldfish tank, I must admit). No one talks much of the dryness of skin from electrical or other human induced heating, and the effects of searing summer is only for a few unbearable days in Wollongong. There is so much push by the media on climate change, but they also overload us with plenty of models of electrical gadgets during advertising breaks.
Passing showers fell after I watered the garden beds last night, with precise timing as if I had invoked it once I took out the garden hose. I felt good to see moisture on the sand coloured pebbles placed to try to prevent or discourage weeds. Water flowed over the small stones like a break of drought over a river bed. Flora never go out of fashion as fast as bath sets, tapheads, vanity cabinets, stoves, ovens and sink models. Human beings are in constant drive to modify, change or innovate. Plants and flowers thrive in consistency and gradual adaptation, not sudden drastic changes.
David Mason maintains an engaging enthusiasm as he works through countless numbers of customers at the coffee and tea outlet he works in. His dark brown hair rises to a natural vertical over his forehead as if he was supporting Mount Matterhorn in the French Alps. His eyes may reflect fatigue but still exude a natural smile for others. I ask him if he has found his working experience for the past year useful and relevant to his future plans and dreams. David says he is glad he embraced the ropes, the people, the network and the reality on the front lines. He seems to have a structured purpose to the role he has chosen for himself. Do we need to throw ourselves, I sometimes ponder, to the whims and fancies of formal syllabuses and course demands, when we can shape and sculpt some part of our own preferences in preparing for our future?
I have been reminded that some specific individuals are not all that reasonable or civil. Maybe, as a title of a catchy tune alludes to in the South Pacific musical, I have been all along too much a bright-eyed optimist. I naturally think of the best in people when I first meet and interact with them. These individuals with negative intent try to impose their demands and influence beyond their actual impact, and must feel good, in their own perverted reckoning, to seemingly be able to utilise laws meant for the common good to apply to their unique personal advantage. Do they really need to think and act like that? In the unsaid laws of the universe, every action does bring forth an equal and logical reaction.
Passing showers fell after I watered the garden beds last night, with precise timing as if I had invoked it once I took out the garden hose. I felt good to see moisture on the sand coloured pebbles placed to try to prevent or discourage weeds. Water flowed over the small stones like a break of drought over a river bed. Flora never go out of fashion as fast as bath sets, tapheads, vanity cabinets, stoves, ovens and sink models. Human beings are in constant drive to modify, change or innovate. Plants and flowers thrive in consistency and gradual adaptation, not sudden drastic changes.
David Mason maintains an engaging enthusiasm as he works through countless numbers of customers at the coffee and tea outlet he works in. His dark brown hair rises to a natural vertical over his forehead as if he was supporting Mount Matterhorn in the French Alps. His eyes may reflect fatigue but still exude a natural smile for others. I ask him if he has found his working experience for the past year useful and relevant to his future plans and dreams. David says he is glad he embraced the ropes, the people, the network and the reality on the front lines. He seems to have a structured purpose to the role he has chosen for himself. Do we need to throw ourselves, I sometimes ponder, to the whims and fancies of formal syllabuses and course demands, when we can shape and sculpt some part of our own preferences in preparing for our future?
I have been reminded that some specific individuals are not all that reasonable or civil. Maybe, as a title of a catchy tune alludes to in the South Pacific musical, I have been all along too much a bright-eyed optimist. I naturally think of the best in people when I first meet and interact with them. These individuals with negative intent try to impose their demands and influence beyond their actual impact, and must feel good, in their own perverted reckoning, to seemingly be able to utilise laws meant for the common good to apply to their unique personal advantage. Do they really need to think and act like that? In the unsaid laws of the universe, every action does bring forth an equal and logical reaction.
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