Mugalomaniac.

Thursday, April 03, 2008

The truth about the world

In the past, when you're a mugger, people don't call you a mugger. They call you hardworking. Not just average hardworking, but really, REALLY, hardworking. They don't mention the fact that your room is filled with essays, stacked to the ceilings. They don't mention that your dustbins only contains pens and is in fact, overflowing. They don't mention that the fire that burnt down your neighbor's house, and your neighbor's neighbor's house, was started by the candle you toppled during midnight after being too excited by your answer to the calculus question, setting fire to the essay tower. They don't mention all that. They completely and thoroughly censor those facts and keep to their story, you're hardworking.

Not a mugger, that is oh-so made fun of in high school. In the past, when you are a mugger, you're HARDWORKING.

Then, people started to realize that it was abnormal. Normal teens did not like studying, they liked playing games in fields. They liked making balls go into nets, be it with their hands or legs. They really liked lines, running around, following the endless lines, going in circles just to make sure that their feet finished stepping around the lines. They liked piling on top of each other. Suddenly, studying so much was not a hardworking sign. It was a sign of abnormality, of weirdness. So what do they do now? They make a funny name for it. A mugger.

Mugger! How weird can it get? Why in the world, did anyone, in their right (or left) mind, create a word, from a MUG, that describes a person that studies a lot. It makes no sense. No logical link.

Perhaps a person who studies too long will dehydrate, therefore requiring the assistance of a mug, to continue re hydrating himself and thus being able to continue to quench his knowledge. Nice.

So call them weird. Now people are really getting affected by this seemingly harmless word. Call them a mugger and see their reaction. "NOO. I'm not studying. This? Pffftt. Hahaha. Why would I be studying? This result? Tyco one lah. Won't be so good."

Now people will not want to admit that they are even hardworking. No way near that line. Too dangerous, too much of a reputation to sacrifice if one would admit that they are STUDYING. Gosh.

But then, when so many people refuses to study, the general cohort now becomes more and more slackish, as some would call it. People are playing left right and center, 'not' burning the midnight oil, 'not' bring books home to mug, ops, study. They are SO 'not' hardworking. Then, one person admits,

"Yea, I'm a mugger. So what?"

And then, people see that being a mugger is outstanding, it's different.

See? People don't want to be a mugger just for the mugger thing, people want to be different. The world moves in a cycle, just like fashion, just like the habits and thinking of people. What is here now, was here before.

So now, what we are? What this is?

This is the truth about the world.

Lecture delivered at 11:53 PM by jessXW