Brag About Your Career!
The most difficult thing to do here in this planet is probably not to commit suicide, nor to live plainly, nor to get rich, but rather, to find something one can brag about. No matter how a person would skew the angles, others would only have the same opinion about bragging—it is comparable to someone burying his or herself neck deep in mud.
Try making up a situation just to test the conclusion above. For example, you are an old man who just can’t keep up with the energy that is required in producing corn. So you decided to test your luck by digging gold just a few steps away outside your house. You were digging and digging. And you’re clothes are already full of soil, and you feel the soil caking in your arms. You smell yourself and you remember what the surroundings smelled like when your wife was buried after dying of AIDS. And it seems you’re only digging your own grave until…
Oil started gushing from underground. What would you do if you happen to discover oil in your town? Would you brag about it?
Surely, once you brag about it, or even just by letting other people you know in the intention of informing them good news, people will immediately think that your next move is to have a monopolized control over oil. And they wouldn’t want that. If you won’t speak anything about it, your discovery would be useless.
So, you are trapped between talking and keeping your mouth shut. This is why to brag is very difficult. But that doesn’t mean you can’t. Show everyone your pride. Wear sterling silver cufflinks that would symbolize your newfound prosperity. Career related cufflinks like oil derrick cufflinks would make anyone bow to you. You wouldn’t even care to say anything!
Back when you were young, what did you want to be? This is the most basic question asked from a child. The answer to this, of course, would not only showcase the child’s capacity to understand the question, but also sharpens his view of the future. It is also a hint to the child that he or she is the one who would have to take responsibility for that future to take shape.
In almost every part of your neighborhood, it is impossible for you not to hear even a single child ranting about his or her dad not being at home more than he should be. This is the tale of almost all Americans that grow up in the city. Because they’re dads are busy in the office from all the assignments and paper works they would eventually work on at home, kids living in the city rarely experience having a good time with their fathers.
What should you do if ever someone gives you a remote control of your life? This isn’t being figurative. Although it would be quite unreal, the question poses a philosophical dilemma and is the springboard for a parable about dependence.
What is the job of a movie director? If we were to make the movie director the person with the tiniest responsibility in the production and the formerly minute existence, in the size of a
In your mind, a film reel that looks like
What could be a bank vault if it’s taken out of the bank? What could still be put in it?
You were watching TV and you saw the words “I can help, I’m a doctor” flashed on the screen, what would immediately come to your mind? Your health? The economic crisis affecting the pharmaceutical industry? Such specific ideas cannot but be traced from the disappointingly true nature of man being trapped in dependence to a world resisting to be governed. Such idea isn’t only a theme in literature wrought to take the form of beauty, but that which holds the grand narrative of life’s perpetual renegotiation with the world.
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