Tuesday, June 23, 2009

The diamond perception

Sometimes seeing things from different angles of a something helps. Sometimes it doesn't. Just like watching a diamond up close and personal. A shiny diamond might be so brilliant to the naked eye that it looks perfect. Then again, magnifying it could reveal flaws and imperfections. Would I rather know the truth? Not really. Because we are all like diamonds, and we all have hidden imperfections which we have the right to hide. And perhaps revealing imperfections is humiliating. And unless humiliation is part of the pact and bargain, then no, leave those kids and less-so kids alone and let them do their thing and move on. If their imperfections are so hard to fathom out, then that's ok. That means that they strive to do the good thing. A man who looks bad and is bad usually does nothing to hide it. And perhaps that man also might be better left alone to bask in his hideousness of a creature. So I am here in this unclear world with so many people having so many different versions of real life, of what is the truth. And what is that? Your truth might be different to mine. Because you might perceive things so differently. And our perceptions might both be valid. You might think a diamond is just a rock like any other, to me it's a distinctive kind of rock, one which I would love to prettify and mould it into a six-prong setting. It still is a rock, and it still is a diamond. And where I get my love for diamonds is a mystery. A diamond is a girl's best friend huh? To me it's my ego all put into a rock, which I prefer to call a stone. And what is strange is that throughout the course of my life I have picked up quite a number, and yet yearn for more. I would give up eating if someone gave me diamonds instead. What a terrific diet that would be. I'd turn into a size 8 with an 8 carat on my finger. But I'm not so sure that anybody is ready to do that. What a pity. And I have a feeling I am rambling on from one thought to the other which makes sense to me, but which might not make sense to you. I'm sorry if it doesn't. But it's all about perception, the magical golden word.