Have you noticed that no matter how much we advance as a race we still end up fighting?

When I used to grow up, I was oblivious to what was going on around me.

• I didn’t know that there were still wars out there.
• I didn’t know that people were suffering.
• I didn’t know about politics.
• I didn’t know about money.
• I didn’t know anything about what the real world.

I was 14 years old when the world around me started changing. On 11 September 2001, I was preparing to go out and play, when my parents called me to the living room. They were watching TV and they were upset.

They were showing the Twin Towers going down.

I still remember what I said: “Cool movie!” and then I went out to play and hang with my friends. When I got home, my parents told me that it wasn’t a movie and that it was really happening in real life.

My stupid brain didn’t get it then. “Okay it happened but what does it got to do with me?” was my thought.

You see, I was so used to seeing movies with people getting killed, wars, dramas and so on, that when it happen in real life it didn’t even occur to me that I should probably feel (at least) sad.

Now, after 9 years, I am very much aware of things that are happening around me. And my conclusion from my short life: As the most intelligent race on this planet we sure are a bunch of morons.

I doubt there was ever a moment of peace in the history of human kind. It seems we get a kick from starting wars from any reason.

It’s sad.

You know, everything that we do in our lives has a direct link with what happens around us. But, when the outcome isn’t the one we expect it to be, we go berserk and put the blame on others. And, everything else starts from there.

And, it’s in moments like this that I remember a short novel that I read in primary school. I don’t remember who wrote or what it is called I just remember the content (it was really long ago).

It’s about a Supreme Being that keeps records with the advancement of all the species in the universe. And one day, his loyal friend comes over and tells him that the human have already discovered the atomic energy. The Supreme Being is really happy and opens a special book where he keeps records of the most intelligent species. While he writes the name of the humans, he asks his friend: “On what planet did the humans test the atomic energy?” At which his friend replies: “On their own planet”.

At this stage, the Supreme Being just looks blankly at his friends and with his pen traces a line over the humans name saying: “It’s such a shame”.

The humans were the only ones in the Supreme Being special notebook being erased.

So, my question is: “What’s the use of evolving and consider ourselves the most intelligent beings on this planet if all that we can do is enslave ourselves?”

I’m thinking that most people that work in a small space with a lot of co-workers had some issues with the air conditioner at one point or another.

I’m not against working with the air conditioner on, but in the past 2-3 weeks my left eye has been twitching like crazy. It’s pretty annoying to say the least. And I’m not the only one that has a problem because of the A.C. Another co-worker has a really bad cold and it seems like he’s never going to get better.

And all this because we have a third co-worker who, no matter how cold it is in the office, she’s always hot and always complaining about it. Seriously, she turned the A.C. on and set it at 20 degrees C. And guess who was feeling the cold air. ME!!! It pisses me off cause when the air was focused only on her working area, she complains that she might get a cold, but she doesn’t want it turned off, just repositioned.  

In fact, it seems that whenever someone mentions her name, my blood tension rises. I could go on and start complaining about her, but she’ not worth the effort. It would be just wonderful if I could just ignore her existence completely. But, as things are right now, that’s not possible.