Sunday, August 3, 2008

What I Don't Understand

Truthfully, there are a million things that I don't understand in this world. But among them, here goes the list of those that perplex me the most:
1) Why do men equate in their minds a woman saying, "I'm into you," with "I want to rob you of your manhood, freedom, and any possible firing at self-fulfillment and happiness?" 
2) Why do homeless people insist on spending more time sitting on corners with that god damn cardboard square that says, "God Bless you. I'm homeless. Can I please have some money to eat?" than walking around looking for a j-o-b? Furthermore:
3) Why do these homeless people not ask for money to read so that they can become educated and then look for a j-o-b? 
4) Why do some people just seem to want to be homeless?
5) Why, at the end of the day, is sex just...sex? Isn't it an infringement on whatever force was responsible for bestowing upon us those pesky little things called emotions? 
6) Why is it so much easier to gain weight than to lose it? 
7) Why can't magic actually exist? It would really come in handy if I could pick my nose (as I have an obnoxious tendency to do, unfortunately often in public), and that thing that I'm trying to do--like make even one of the 7 billion dollars that comprise the greeting card industry by writing verses for that industry--just, BLING, comes to fruition?
8) Why do there seem to be leaps and bounds more opportunities to become more cynical than more optimistic?
9) Why is one of those reasons that people, in general, do not know what they want these days, making "the flake out" system of operating and communicating the supposed universal standard, particularly in the city? But fuck it, just everywhere? 
10) Why is it actually inappropriate to masturbate in movie theaters and have sex on barstools? 
11) Why can't we all just walk around naked? Nevermind, that doesn't perplex me, it's possibly the only reality that soothes me. 

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