FRIVOLOUS THOUGHTS (Draft 2)

Just another draft. I am sure this is not the final one. I know. haha.

I CRUMPLE PAPERS

Let me tell to you a story.

The Story of the Conceited Paper

There was this paper, just fresh from the machine. He was so humble that people would buy him, use him, and value him. People would say that it’s a good paper for everyday use. However, because of the praises of his good quality, he became more stubborn and arrogant. He would show off his white perfect quality and boasts that no other paper has that quality. With much vanity in his fibers, he talks about himself to other papers of his same kind. However, a tree approached him. “Who are you?” the proud paper said.

“I am a tree. You came from me. Everyone of you came from me.” Said the tree.

“And so?” he said raising his eyebrows, or should I say, blue lines.

“You don’t have the right to boast about yourself. You’re just a paper. Other papers are better than you, but they just stick around the corner, being used humbly.”

“I don’t care. I’ll prove that I’m the best. Pour water to me. Burn me. I’ll be alive.”

The rain poured. The tree just laughed. The paper was soaked. It was the end of him.

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Moral of the story?

Know your limitations. You cannot just boast around showing people something that you do not have. Never think that if you have the skill, you are already the best. Never think that if you are the head, you can do what you want already. It’s so annoying that people tend to think they’ve got all the power in the world, where in fact, they don’t have. They deserve to be crumpled and thrown away, if they don’t change.

I crumple papers. And not just any piece of paper we see everyday. These papers are those who are “mapapel” in everything that they do. Let me narrow them down to you into three: a celebrity, a president, and a judge.

If you have become a celebrity, it doesn’t mean that you are to make a gap with fans already; thinking that these fans are just cheap and that they should distance themselves from celebrities. A celebrity and a fan is still a person, so that gap that the celebrity is hoping for might be washed away.

If you were the president before, it doesn’t mean that you still got that power to command people; knowing that the people you were commanding before, are now your boss. An ex-president must now watch and support as the next president sits.

If you have become the head judge for a contest, it doesn’t mean that you already have the right to choose the winner on your own; knowing that there are still other judges to make the final decision. A head judge might consider looking at his left and right to see if his co-judges also agree to the decision.

It’s just that simple. No big! It’s just that details and decorations covered their inner being and these would make them proud of themselves. These would make them powerful. These would make them selfish. It may be too superficial to write something about this, but, I feel that this is the only way in which the papers around us could learn. If they do not wake up after reading this, I just don’t know.

While I do not mean to shot guns to people, it is not already my fault if you were the one shot by the stray bullet.

Lesson learned: NEVER BE BOSSY. It would seriously kill others’ integrity and your personality. Let’s crumple papers! At least, those dangerous ones. If I am a paper to you, just tell me. I won’t get mad. I will thank you for sure.

Kill me: attheequinox.blogspot.com.

Ahh, so much for my frivolous thoughts.