Ironically it's a nicer part of me typing right now.
I'll be frank.
I like Reservoir Dogs, but I hate Quentin Tarantino for his assistance in kicking off the new year with Hostel. That's a very nice way for me to enjoy my medium rare 16-ounce rib-eye - by trying to keep my mind away from a preview of a movie about a human slaughterhouse complete with screams of pain and fear during a commercial break. Mmmmm mmmm mmm.
Call me conservative, but that just pissed the hell off of me. And what pissed me off more is the fact that people MIGHT line up to watch this junk. It'll be a dark day when I hear my grandchildren talk about this movie in the future, calling it a 'vintage classic'.
You can call it what you like and call yourself sophisicated at the same time. Great. Congratulations. You've just been desensitized. Trust me, it takes one to know one. In fact, I'll make a wager:
I bet that anyone who joins me in agreeing to the precept that 'experience is the best teacher' has masturbated at least TWICE in their whole life so far, most probably with the involvement of pornographic material.
I'm also desensitized. In fact, I'm a sick man, full of lust, cynicism and hatred for self. I'm aware of that, and I'm ashamed of it. It scares me too, to think about the possible truth of human desires dragging countless people down to the lowest forms of depravity.
I hope my friends can join me in saying that they have seen their own share of events that could be leading to this reality. With the differences of each generation and the general pride and indifference that widens the gap between each one, now I'm getting plenty serious with mentioning a line that used to be very funny to me during college;
"TANGINA GANITO NA BA KABATAAN NATIN NGAYON!?"
Now before things get any worse, this year I resolve to think twice with my words and actions that they do not promote that which may very well become principle in the future if no attention is given to it.
Think about it.
Unless we start thinking straighter we are going to see more and more teenage pregnancies and equally more and more abortions.
What a wonderful year 2006 is going to be. No. I'm not sarcastic. I'm excited. This year will be beautiful.
We got many unnamed hurricanes and typhoons to come. We have more and more possible diseases and robbery and rape cases coming up for the survivors of the storms of this past year.
We got more suicide bombers popping up in places unheard of peddling their wares to unsuspecting and, more to the point, innocent civilians. We got more terrorist groups representing their own divine or political motives bolder and bolder in forms of these bombings and kidnappings and executions.
We have administrations and governments tainted with "liberal" ideals punishable by death if mentioned during the 1800's. We have the corrupt robbing from the poor, and we also have the poor overreacting in the form of pointless protests and burning of effigies.
We have more than 80% (an extremely generous consideration) of the media distracting the young from these events by initially showing them animated animals brutally hurting each other, then showing them that scantily clad women and hot men with chiseled abs are what life is worth living for.
And that realization, together with the principle 'Love your neighbor as you love yourself' has led me to an imbalance of morals which in turn reinforced an attitude which projects more attention stressed towards appeasing those within the closest proximity.
There could have been instances wherein I should have just considered killing myself to be less of a hassle towards the whole world. But it was hope that kept me from even thinking about that possibility. This was the hope of something better coming out of every event. This was further magnified by the truth of an all-powerful God whose only goal is to draw out what's best for me given any scenario.
The bottom line is something better will surely come out of those events I'm having difficulty in understanding.