Saturday, October 14, 2006

this week

sometimes we have experiences that bring our shortcomings right up to our noses, unavoidably in our faces. no escaping, and they are smelly, too.

it's so much nicer to live with the illusions about ourselves that we so carefully cultivate.

5 comments:

Wikkid Person said...

Truth is like Life: full of change and death, birth and conflict, often messy, greasy, sometimes bloody. Funny sounds, smells and tastes, often too vivid for comfort. And who'd have it any other way?

Beth said...

funny, i'm just watching the matrix right now. :)

Wikkid Person said...

that does seem apropos, Trinity. There is a spoon, of course. Many of them, in fact.

Beth said...

i guess that was not really related to the topic. only that, you know, things are not as we would like to think they are.

Wikkid Person said...

On the contrary, I thought it connected because of Agent Smith's little speech in which he is disgusted by biological life, with its horrible smells and germs and sweat and mess.