I have recently walked into an improvised trap set up at a friend's place on wanting to find out about the little incidents that have been brewing up in the house lately. Acting as the middleman and the purveyor of information to a household that seems a bit of a busybody but it turns out there are motives for wanting to extract information out of me. Once again, I am called upon my services to listen to the various relationship situations and to give my opinion about it.
I am really not comfortable about all of this, particularly because of the secrets that I have to keep as well as the moral dilemma about this rather complex situation. The other people in the room don't seem to think so, but I, on the other hand, am not so sure. It is very hard to remain unbiased about these sorts of things and it is just all round hard.
I ended up spending the rest of the night talking to one of them about the whole thing and if there was a time that clichéd relationship quotes were to come, this was the time. Everything from "nice guys finish last" to "guys are just jerks" and even to the somewhat controversial "it's not easy being a guy". We analysed every bit of the situation and try to read between the lines on what all of that meant, which in our case wasn't too difficult at all. But I have a strange feeling that someone is going to get burned in the end. They almost always do.
At the end of the day, I'm just an armchair theorist. A pretty seasoned one at that too.
The first time I have heard of the term was when a friend introduced me to this Japanese skit that has the appearance of seriousness but it's just comedy. And funnily enough, it was a 4 part skit on relationships, particularly how to get yourself a partner. I highly encourage you to watch it, it is hilarious. The term appears in the third part.
It is one of those things where you sort of understand what it means but not really. Took me a long time to figure out what it really means and it turns out I do this all the time. This is usually the approach I take when it comes to people. It's a terrible thing to do most of the time but I still do it anyway. I just like the idea that I am right in a deluded sort of way.
So really I just like thinking about stuff but not really like to get my hands dirty. That is quite possibly the source of all my problems.
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Since Christmas season is coming soon, I'd like to get away from all the commercialisation of Christmas and also the same ol' Christmas songs playing in the shopping malls and in church. Which leads me to my current ear worm of the week, Giants Must Fall. Great Singaporean band mashing up songs together with a haunting melody on a timeless Christmas song.
Chills on my spine.
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Another great listen is the new album from Austin Stone Worship, The Reveille Volume 2. Really great instrumental album and if you are a great fan of Explosions in the Sky and The Album Leaf, this is right up your alley. Something unique too, very few church bands venture into the instrumental part (apart from those cheesy piano based instrumentals). What I think most people forget is that it is just as important to the things that are not said as well as the things that are said. And there is a severe lack of good emotive instrumental albums out there among all the usual church bands which can speak volumes as well.
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