Being a Virgo has certainly started to
take its toll on me. I don’t really believe in star signs especially the ones
sold to innocent people desperate for encouragement, but I do believe in the
possibility of people born in a particular month sharing particular character
traits. That’s what the world does. It gets God’s work and finds a way to make
it a more “celestial” way to explain it to humans. Belonging to Virgo leaves me
an active thinker, I always debate anything before it settles in my head, and
sometimes it occurs deep in my subconscious without my consent, the English
proverbs inclusive.
Here is my problem, these proverbs are to be taken literally, and yet we live in a practical world, and secondly most of them were intended for minority groups, in minority situations, and lastly times change, some are just outdated.
Here is my problem, these proverbs are to be taken literally, and yet we live in a practical world, and secondly most of them were intended for minority groups, in minority situations, and lastly times change, some are just outdated.
Curiosity killed the cat;
The proverb everyone has used once at
least in their life. It is a warning for people not to poke into things that do
not concern them. But really let’s think about it, how would you know what
concerns you and what doesn’t if you are clueless about what is being discussed?
And even worse, if you are clueless about what is being discussed behind
your back, how do you decide what
concerns you and what dosen't? How sure are you the people discussing behind your
back are not planning to kill you, would it hurt to ask the scary guy in the
dark alley if he had any evil plans that night before passing by him? No! Would
it hurt to ask the Grim Reaper what he’s doing in your car seat when driving
down a dark road high on alcohol? No! So why would someone ask another person
to stop asking questions about things that their brain doesn’t fathom?
My theory: This proverb is not fully a fact; ironically it only applies to people who have lost their sense of curiosity. And all that time without practice has left them armatures at the art of asking questions. And the only time they try to ask them, they literally die from curiosity.
My theory: This proverb is not fully a fact; ironically it only applies to people who have lost their sense of curiosity. And all that time without practice has left them armatures at the art of asking questions. And the only time they try to ask them, they literally die from curiosity.
Case solved: Curiosity killed the wrong cat and I have the world’s greatest genius
to prove my theory
Keep your friends close and your enemies
closer.
For this
experiment, you will need a lion, a jaguar and a leopard and a blue room. Yes
blue is the color for dramatic effect. Then place them into the same room and
drop in the fattest goat you can find, and see how much 3 enemies living
together is a bad idea.
Case solved: keep your harmless enemies close, and your harmful friends closer.
The pen is mightier than the sword
I’m done listening
to literal meanings, I bet the exaggeration in our daily speech is the reason
the world's scientists have not yet found the key to its biggest
mysteries, nuclear fusion inclusive. First of all we live in the era of
facebook and emails. Countries have
literally gone to war over one president not accepting the other's request or a
mere follow back, and now you tell me a pen is mightier than a sword. Go back
to the blue room, hopefully the lion is still alive, bruised, but alive, on the
ground is a pen and sword, let's see which one you pick. For your sake i really hope you do not pick the pen.
Case solved: the sword is mightier than the pen, but once in a while the pen will get
lucky and cause more damage or prevent it.
A picture is worth more than a thousand words
I wrote a special
poem for this one;
STEVE: the idiot
Steve was leading a
rebellion.
Marching day and
night into oblivion.
Steve wanted to inspire
his army,
Show them a picture
of a stash of gold he did,
Steve died alone on
the battlefield
By Lincoln Nidoi
By Lincoln Nidoi
Case solved: a picture is worth more than ten words
Necessity is the mother of invention.
The key to the
madness in this proverb is in my previous blog post.
Case solved: Laziness is the mother of necessity and invention, they are siblings, (the
father being boredom but he doesn’t like to be associated with his kids very
much, so let’s leave him out of this)
Good things come to those who wait
I see what this
proverb implies but I just do not see how this applies to all situations. First
of all you can wait for a phone call from the lottery team and your land lord
calls instead, and the most likely probability is you can wait for your pen to
turn into an airplane and you will die before seeing it happen.(for all those who have ever got bored in class with only a pen and creativity at their hands)
Case solved: good things will come to those who wait wisely
And finally the
biggest lie of them all;
Practice makes perfect
No one can ever be
perfect. To prove this theory we are going to have to go in the opposite
direction, let’s say you are practicing to write with both hands accurately,
and the pen slips on one side forming a crescent , perfection would not mean
never making this mistake again, perfection would be making the same mistake
two more times, the first time (second time) being coincidence, the second time
(third time) being perfection
Case closed: practice makes … (am still thinking about this one)
And so as you can
see, a good number of the proverbs we use are either outdated, absurd or
apppeal to the minority today, and thus “I will none of their usage, this day
forth...”
PS: I am right on all
counts and I have a 2,000 paged Oxford Dictionary plus a dead genius to prove
it!
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