title of this one-word-essay : tornado

A tornado is a circulatory wind movement. A movement that causes a disastrous effect on its surroundings.However, it is one that is natural. One that is un-stoppable. One that human cannot change.

Humans. They causes more harmful tornadoes then those natural occurrences. They kill, they harm and they bite others from the back. They disturb the natural order of the surroundings. They have caused air, land and water pollution. They have caused the much predicted global warming. They are slowly murdering the very mother earth that have selflessly given us our essentials for living.

They who were born pure and innocent have become such monsters capable of making our fauna and flora tremble in fear. They who were once delicate little souls have been trained to use anything around them, even substance as small as an atom, to eliminate others. They who were once little sponges that absorb all the knowledge like a hungry little kitten suckling its mothers nipples, have become so tainted by the harshness around them that they become either
: soft, bending to the rules that are set out for them
hard, learning and growing tougher to weather against the harsh reality
jelly-like, adaptable to the surrounding/situations

A child accepts and emits happiness selflessly. They just laugh when they feel joyous and pout when they are not in favor with the situations they are in. But as time goes by, they create this inevitable mask that they hide behind. This mask that they beautifully adorn to show others their ideal-self, the person people expect them to be, the person society think that they need to be, the person that everyone but themselves think is 'perfect'. Soon this mask will encompass their whole life, it circulates around them in every aspect of their life that it becomes a tornado that follows them wherever they go. Hiding their true self, showing the different 'ideals' people have of them , circulating around them, restricting them to that very small vortex that is peaceful and deflecting those negative things that they dont want others to see of them. From this whole mess of confusion, there are still those deflection that comes out as negative words, anger, self-denial, pessimism and depression.

This self-created barrier will and have prevented many from reaching out for their wants/ their own personal aims in life with full force. The many 'ideals' have left them confused over what is their own wants and unable to differentiate that from others wants of them. Molding our future generation into androids of society or what some would call as social engineering.

the question of this very short - half-done essay is : so are we going to become one of those androids or are we going to start planning and shaping our own future. So why the decisions that we make. Izit our decisions, or is it our parents/society's?

story that i heard today that i wouldnt wanna forget: a 32-yr old lady asked for financial assistance. this is her 3rd marriage, her 6th child. her 1st child is 16 yrs old. when asked what is the state of the 1st child, she said that he played truancy, doesnt wanna go to sch, not interested in education. then when the social worker asked the 3rd husband why he doesnt control the 1st child.. his ans : not his child, later if scold or beat , can be brought up to court.

the link tat i learnt. education is very related to our family. if a man is not devoted to his wife, he will be less devoted to his children, and (especially if the child is a male) then if his role model(father) is not good, then the child's education usually suffers.


another story that i remembered, its abt this father that tot a child abt prob solving.
he asked the kid to observe. he boiled 3 big pots of water

in the 1st pot, he placed a potato

in the 2nd pot, he placed an egg

in the 3rd pot, he placed a tea bag

n asked the child to wait... the child grew restless as he waited and waited... after abt 2 hours, the dad came back to switch of the fires and asked the son....

so what do u observe..?

the child pressed the potato : it became soft, the egg : hard , the water with he tea bag : had a very nice aroma

the father said this.:

you can either be like the potato, soft and brittle when u face hard challenges ,

or u can be like the egg, hard and resistant when u face difficulties,

or u can adapt and make the best out of the situation like the tea bag.

so food for thought: what will i be?