No wonder God doesn’t interfere, because apparently it’s just as the old saying goes: “Maynoob el m5alass ella ta2tee3 hedoomoo.” When you interfere, you’re blamed for the shortcomings of all parties. When you don’t interfere, you’re blamed for your own shortcomings. What’s right? What’s wrong? What’s altruism? I’ve been told never to put forward more than I’m offered, time and time again, but apparently that’s a lesson that one has to learn on their own, through trial and error. Sometimes people keep ignoring the error messages; enhancing their pop up blockers until they’re kept safely within their blissful folds of oblivion. However, bliss never lasts, even though oblivion may. Oblivion has proven its survival abilities for centuries on end, it has outlived dinosaurs, faith and most virtuosos. It has thrived on the abilities of its agent pop-up blockers around the world, fucking the silence out of its little ally, bliss. And mind you, bliss doesn’t mind as long as it feels good. So tell me, what’ve you got left if you’ve been robbed of both bliss and oblivion? Because I gotta tell you, trial and error has proved that knowledge is power, and power in the wrong hands is destructive. Power in the hands of those who’re not used to handling it, are used to abusing it or simply never got used to using it, that is. Knowledge doesn’t like to be manhandled, it also doesn’t appreciate being kept in the dark. Unlike bliss, it doesn’t mind if it doesn’t always feel nice. And unlike oblivion, it is painfully straightforward and waits for no one.
Time and time again I’ve learned, the hard way, that nobody gives a fuck. That no matter how much of yourself you expend, when people are put on the line when they have to choose between themselves and someone else, it is no longer a choice. They’re automated by survival instincts to self-preserve, and fight-or-flight is initiated. Oblivion and bliss work hard to ease the ego blow and put knowledge’s calls and pleads for an urgent meeting on hold, so knowledge leaves in a copy of its resume and proceeds to more potentially promising employers. After all, it waits for no one, does it now? And sometimes, when you finally realize that you’ve missed out on such great work experience, knowledge will only come back when given an impressive offer that will leave you almost bankrupt, and hoping to god that knowledge’s hard work down the line will make up for your lost investments and raise the curve. Oblivion and bliss might be infuriated that you gave up on their services after all those years of loyalty put into your corporation, but they’ll leave you behind for a less hostile working environment, more lucrative employers and better long-term benefits, sapping it all out of your inebriated recommendations on their CV’s. When you’re unable to employ knowledge again because it’ll no longer have you, oblivion and bliss are more than glad to buy your soul and use the loopholes in the contract to be double, triple and sometimes multiple agents.
Nobody gives a shit. Granted. Altruism is a masochistic form of slow suicide glorified into a long-lost principle by sheer idiocy and perfectionist myths. A fallen ideology, rejected from utopias for hogging resources only to be blown out of proportion and sold to societal rejects in the black market, taking everything you’ve got with almost no guarantee as to the quality or perseverance of the product, protected by its no-return policy and the fact that you’re not legally apt to demand a refund or a more suitable bargain for your damages. Hence ironically promoting its one deadly revelation that could very likely put it out of business had the human race been faster to realize it, being that you’re out on your own, that it’s a one man game and that when it gets rough, everybody bails. Including your own sponsor. Especially your own sponsor.
Set churned. Lesson learned. Page turned.