Monday, July 18, 2011

Crazy little thing called life




I don't do that - hang out with an older crowd. Just the opposite, in fact. Both in real life and online. Not for any feel young factor but a purely practical reason: I don't have a lot to relate to with people my age. Meaning people my age are all married, with kids, grandkids even, and I don't talk their talk. Which leaves me with not much choice but to hang out and trade inanities with younger and younger people. Kind of a Tithonus situation maybe but I'm not complaining too much. Sometimes my peers make me tired. It's wearying listening to health problems all the time.  I'd rather stay on the loose wire and talk tech...er, fun tech (in case any real techies on this page get the guffaws). I mean, the world's getting techier and techier, right?

To get away from the age thing to another dicey topic - the gender divide, why are guys so weird? There's this guy I got to know from an online games room several years ago -  a nice guy though definitely something of a bad boy. In between the time he dropped out of cyberspace, he got his act cleaned up, became involved in church activities, and met this girl who was lovely and well, a little out of his league, I kind of thought. I often came across them together and they were a pretty solid item for quite a while. Then recently I came across his wedding pictures on Facebook and whoa, the bride wasn't his longtime girlfriend. Turns out the duo had not been on speaking terms for some time, and in between, boy had got another girl knocked up and had no option but to marry her and forget much-loved girlfriend. The common friend who told me this said he'd been the one who'd had to break the news to the girlfriend and that it had been, well, brutal. Little wonder the bride and groom had looked a little grim in the wedding pictures. Why are men so base scurrilious   unable to keep their libidos under control  hell-bent on self-destruction weird?

12 comments:

  1. Why are men so....? Ummm.....because they are genetically programmed to be that way. Sorry but billion years of evolution and genetics is stronger than social norms and religious straightjacketing.

    On the other hand don't blame you getting bored with your own generation. Most of the time I am bored with the entire human race. As Emperor Nero was wont to lament, "I am surrounded by humans". Birds of feather separated by ca. 2000 years.

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  2. DDB, whoa, girl, don't get yourself too over-excited! :D

    Loch, so this guy dug his own grave because he's genetically programmed to do so? Poor d-u-m-b male animals! And you sound world-weary, tsk tsk. Maybe you should take time off work for a while and do something crazy?

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  3. Hihi.. 'Who can blame you?' tih hla ngaithla chunga ka'n chhiar chu a!

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  4. Maybe getting married due to social pressure was digging his grave! :D

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  5. Alison Krauss maw, Ts? Van ngaithla lungrun ve aw.

    Precisely, Loch, and why? Because he's "genetically programmed" to be untrue to his own heart. *shame*

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  6. LOL. Males are genetically programmed to look for as many mates as possible.

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  7. Uh Loch, does that mean you're spilling secrets? :D

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  8. I think you will find that for every dumb male, there's a dumb female. That's probably how the chemistry works.

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  9. Men are strange. That's really all there is too it. They will claim to be super simple and uncomplicated, but the more you get to know them, the more they confound you.

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  10. "I'd rather stay on the loose wire and talk tech.." ehh i think i know, conversations lasted a few network hiccup!

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  11. Sounds reasonable put that way, daniel. One dumb male, one dumb female. Only problem is when they do dumb things to non-dumb partners, leaving their poor victims badly burnt and bleeding.

    My conclusions exactly, diary. I don't believe there's any such thing as a simple, uncomplicated male. And to think they go on and on about women being complicated..

    Haha vana, blame that on BSNL's lousy network!

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