Turn the other cheek,or I'll slap you again

Sadly enough, we live in a world where true friendship is hard to find. Whoever understands this, will keep their true friends (whoever has them), given that he/she has character enough to keep and respect that friendship more then his/hers own interests and satisfactions. Since I mentioned it, respect itself, is another animal we do not see often these days. And if we do see it, we act as if we saw Bigfoot..... and true friends that respect each other should not be Bigfoots they should be alley cats, everyday creatures that you see on the street, in the park, and that you expect to be there as they should. Really what the fuck is going on around us?

I mean, since when is being honest a handicap? Since when is being good to someone (friend or anyone for that matter) rewarded with bullshit? Where did humanity make a wrong turn?

Rather often I hear things like "being a good person today is similar to being dumb". True story. I even said it once or twice myself, when I was in one of many shitty situations for which I seem to be a natural magnet of a sort. But if I think about it a bit better, of course that being a good person is not the same as being dumb. However, being a good person, and turning the other cheek when someone slaps you...... it seems that this is the point where Mr Stupidity shows its ugly head.

Let's think about that from another angle: is it logical that if someone slaps us, we turn the other cheek? One of the questions that the logic asks is "why?".Why should we turn the other cheek? So that you could slap me again? If I don't turn the other cheek will you slap me over the same one? If you slap me twice, should I ask for the third time myself? Maybe if I ask for you to slap me, you will not slap me???? Ok, I will turn the other cheek, but please don't slap me......pretty please, with a cherry on the top.....I mean logic is completely out of the window here, and these are the situations that many of us got into, many times in our lives.

In my (pretty-much-non-humble) opinion, good becomes stupid when it passes the boundaries drawn in our heads by logic. Being good to someone that constantly hits you is illogical (ask Spock if you don't trust me), it makes no sense, and instead of standing there and enduring that shit, fight back. Return the "favor". With that slap you took, your goodness is relieved of duty, cause if someone is not good to you, you have no obligation to be good to them. If you still are, know this: you will get run over again.

Basically, what I am trying to say, if you do not want to be someones feet rug, if someone slaps you, I say, slap them back. Do not let anyone to shit all over all those good things you did for him/her.

And when we talk about slapping, I cannot (and should not) fail to mention one of my all-time favorite cyber-celebrities: the "how can she slap" Hindu dude:


I mean it does seem as he got his ass kicked by half of Mumbai, but at least turning the other cheek was not an option.Looking at this from my point of view.....right now, after all the things I've been through, I would endure the ass whopping, but would not let anyone clean his/hers shoes over my back.But hey,that's just me, right? Or... maybe not?

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