Post by ja1cob on Jan 30, 2017 8:43:28 GMT
Hello My Fellow Readers,
I see you have perused upon the topic of my recent thoughts, titled "A Royal's Pondering". I hope you enjoy it:
I sat in a well lit corner of my local coffee shop, tenderly sipping my over-priced caramel macchiato, flipping through the pages of my assigned readings for the day, when a thought occurred to me.
A few thoughts to be precise.
As I let the melodies of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.2 Allegro brillante seep from my loosely fitted earbuds into my brain, I happened to realize something.
Well, maybe a few things to be precise.
I'm not sure if it was the previous day's reading on economy that our professor had assigned. It had me thinking of the undaunted repercussions of capitalism in the states, where the middle and lower class voters, driven by their instincts for money, rather than feelings and pride, allowed for the election of a very curious individual.
Perhaps that wasn't it though. There had to be more to it.
The last few months have also given me valuable experiences in psychoanalysis, which have taught me so much about human nature. Although to describe with something as truly "calm" as nature is perhaps a bit too kind. Human nature is deceitful, cruel, and has been the cause for much suffering. Countless times I have witnessed people depreciating themselves over silly ideas, others having no self-esteem due to societal values imposed upon them and in some extreme cases, violent action and words resulting from insecurities towards certain people. Truly, what does it mean to lose ones humanity, if humanity itself is in such a dire state.
This still couldn't have been the reason for my sudden realization, which at first was incomprehensible and inexplicable.
It was far too surreal a moment.
Now, I assured myself it must have been the lack of enthusiasm displayed by my fellow peers in recent days. Their lack of dedication to their true tasks, their corrupt desires only seeking more wealth and forgetting that they exist to help the survival of our people. Yes, our people. The world needs leaders who can win, who can negotiate, nullify their enemies, be rid of the pests afflicting our society today, true heroes who stand up to their task and do not falter when they must perform reckoning. In a sense it's all about striking good deals. Deals that make the world in balance. In a sense, to "make the world great again", but perhaps we can omit the "again" as humanity itself has proved to have an absolutely distasteful track record.
But in the end something was missing. So I decided to take a sip of my now lukewarm drink and enjoy the finale of a Russian composer's greatest work. Ah how I love the Russians.
Ah, my drink was empty.
Wait.
Now I realized, when my sullen faced barista handed me my barely halfway filled macchiato, I paused to complain about the sorry state of my drink, and how I had been scammed by the establishment. But he had already begun serving another customer at the opposite end of the counter. Yes, the world was a cruel place, and perhaps I may be one of the only ones who can change it, for now.
I see you have perused upon the topic of my recent thoughts, titled "A Royal's Pondering". I hope you enjoy it:
I sat in a well lit corner of my local coffee shop, tenderly sipping my over-priced caramel macchiato, flipping through the pages of my assigned readings for the day, when a thought occurred to me.
A few thoughts to be precise.
As I let the melodies of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.2 Allegro brillante seep from my loosely fitted earbuds into my brain, I happened to realize something.
Well, maybe a few things to be precise.
I'm not sure if it was the previous day's reading on economy that our professor had assigned. It had me thinking of the undaunted repercussions of capitalism in the states, where the middle and lower class voters, driven by their instincts for money, rather than feelings and pride, allowed for the election of a very curious individual.
Perhaps that wasn't it though. There had to be more to it.
The last few months have also given me valuable experiences in psychoanalysis, which have taught me so much about human nature. Although to describe with something as truly "calm" as nature is perhaps a bit too kind. Human nature is deceitful, cruel, and has been the cause for much suffering. Countless times I have witnessed people depreciating themselves over silly ideas, others having no self-esteem due to societal values imposed upon them and in some extreme cases, violent action and words resulting from insecurities towards certain people. Truly, what does it mean to lose ones humanity, if humanity itself is in such a dire state.
This still couldn't have been the reason for my sudden realization, which at first was incomprehensible and inexplicable.
It was far too surreal a moment.
Now, I assured myself it must have been the lack of enthusiasm displayed by my fellow peers in recent days. Their lack of dedication to their true tasks, their corrupt desires only seeking more wealth and forgetting that they exist to help the survival of our people. Yes, our people. The world needs leaders who can win, who can negotiate, nullify their enemies, be rid of the pests afflicting our society today, true heroes who stand up to their task and do not falter when they must perform reckoning. In a sense it's all about striking good deals. Deals that make the world in balance. In a sense, to "make the world great again", but perhaps we can omit the "again" as humanity itself has proved to have an absolutely distasteful track record.
But in the end something was missing. So I decided to take a sip of my now lukewarm drink and enjoy the finale of a Russian composer's greatest work. Ah how I love the Russians.
Ah, my drink was empty.
Wait.
Now I realized, when my sullen faced barista handed me my barely halfway filled macchiato, I paused to complain about the sorry state of my drink, and how I had been scammed by the establishment. But he had already begun serving another customer at the opposite end of the counter. Yes, the world was a cruel place, and perhaps I may be one of the only ones who can change it, for now.
