a stupid post.

When was the last time that you did something stupid?
The flat that I live in is conveniently close to the Kallang River. Just about 10 minutes ago I was looking down at the younger kids of the block. One was whirling a bottle attached to a string -Centrifugal force at work- while the other was looking intently at the Kallang River. Perhaps at a fish or the occasional mud skipper. But then, the next moment, he climbed over the fence and walked close to the bank which is all muddy and slippery and picked out something from the grass patch. After which, he just happily climbed back to solid ground and ran away, out of sight. I think I'm getting way too old for my age. The moment I saw him climbing over, alarms went off in my head. I was thinking, "Eh. Idiot. You wanna get yourself drowned?". Then something snapped in my head. He's a kid, doing what he deems fit, without any self-conscious to his surroundings. He was being him.
The dude from the Nokia advertisement said that Life is a stage and all the men and women are merely actors. How often do we show our true selves?
I suppose that's the small price you have to pay as you mature. To clinch that contract we play favors and suck up; to please that someone we would even agree to the most damning and wrong thing that he or she comes up with. To plot it in a graph, as we grow older, our true-ness declines and our fake-ness climbs higher. Then is perhaps, until you hit the mid-life crisis or when you have retired.
Babies and oldies are the same. Innocent. Kind. Sincere. Truthful.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that all adults are baddies. Just that, it always seem that these few individuals just keep popping up every now and then. It gets to the point where it is almost infuriating.

Frankly, I can't remember when was the last time I did something silly. And I don't simply mean crowding around and taking pictures of your shoes and just screaming out of the blue in the theater. Just for that once, when you do something, you forgo that "danger", that "return" and what others think of you. Maybe it's not a matter of chance, perhaps it's a case of whether you got the guts to do it. Yeah, perhaps. It never was easy to go against the tide now was it.
Anyway, this is a stupid rant that isn't about to go anywhere.
I'd better go back to my books.
Again.