On The Wings of Hope : Prose

Books – transcendental objects. Similar in appearance, they possess absolutely different essence. Once having known any of them, you still cannot tell for sure what character will is possess after a while.

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Treachery – is a process of divergence of individual’s actions with our expectations, concerning these actions.

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Optimist – a person, whose believes that everything that happens is for the best.

Pessimist – a person, who, seeing everything that happens, have no desire to see this “best”.

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Humor – a way of life for optimist and a medicine for pessimist.

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Psychology – a science about what we are, why we are the ones we are, and why we don’t even need to try to become not the ones we are.

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Socionics – a science about those ones, who are strongly prohibited from becoming not the ones they are.

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Politics – a science about how to become the one, whom you are strongly prohibited from becoming.

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Marketing – a science about how to convince another that he needs something that he has no need at all.

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Management – a science about how to find an ideal combination of spice-cake with a whip.

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Human’s biology – a science about what we are, why we are what we are, and what will occur inside us when we will become not that what we are.

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Philosophy – a science about what is and what is not, but can either be or not be, and about what could be, if there was no what is, and couldn’t be what could be.

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Medicine – a science about how we can become what we were, if suddenly we start becoming not what we are.

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Genetics – a science of how to transform something we are and something we were not into something we desire to be,  but what we should not be.

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Diplomacy – a science of how to send away others so that they still remained grateful.

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Statistics – a science of how the majority lives.

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Show business – a science of in what way the minority lives.

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Suicide – a way to forever close the eyes before a horde of self-made problems.

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Eternal life – what we could have, if every moment of our life became infinitely long and wonderful.

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Paradise in a tent – social illusion, caused by application of the given term to too small spaces.

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Happiness – a realized necessity.

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Human – special kind of angels, who cut their own wings soon after own birth.

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Health – something that is not felt until it vanishes; something that, having vanished, can be restored back only with hard work; something, whose vanishing makes lives of ones similar to never-ending torment, and lives of others – similar to breakthrough.

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Life – a process, similar with mountain racing : others show you one third of a path upwards, two thirds of remained path you rise yourself; and when descent time comes – for hold your breath for an instant, and then rush downwards, all the way mentally begging the God to help you not to fall down on such speed, and thus the way downwards is same in length as the way upwards, but requires tens times less. And when you have safely finished your descent – you have already completely forgotten details of the first third of climbing upwards and descending downwards, but cannot forget details of own two thirds climbing uphill.

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Democracy – a rule of miserable over the blessed.

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Human’s essence – what is remained when last hope disappears.

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Kindness – the ability to substitute a second cheek after a blow on the first and say “Stop it”.

Love – the ability to intercept a hand, trying to give a slap in the face, and say “Stop it”.

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Modesty – a springboard for wisdom.

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Misfortune – what remains when the happiness is forgotten.

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City – a home for those with gregarious mind.

Nature – a home for those with lonely mind.

Prison – a home for those with hardened mind.

Church – a home for those with aged mind.

Life – a home for those voluntary mad.

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Success – a consequence of the fact that you were in time.

Failure – a consequence of the fact that you didn’t want to be in time.

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Publicity – is when you are written about in newspapers.

Popularity – is when you are spoken about.

Fame – is when they can’t help speaking and writing about you.

Modesty – is when you understand all senselessness of publicity, popularity and fame.

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Trust – what goes before belief.

Belief – what follows trust.

Experience – what remains after unjustified trustfulness and beliefs.

03.10.2010

Proverbs

Not knowing the ford, do not confuse the issue.

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Soon the fairy tale flies, life moves slower to sunrise.

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