Tuesday, April 12, 2005

marginal consciousness

good morning to all.
don't you just love those mornings where you just lie on your bed, trying to make definite the ambivalence of life by pondering and planning the future, in a state of marginal consciousness where all you mind really cares about is following that one dot that you can see, which nobody else can see, because you are the only one in the world with a small amorphous particle floating in your eye, cause by an imperfection in the aqueous humour, causing a change in the reflective index of the humour in the eye, and thus you seeing a dot in the air, which if you keep on trying to follow to the left, will keep on going left until it simply goes past your peripheral vision scope?
the idea of compiling a blog is much harder than i thought. Maybe its because I am presenting my point of view on life to the entire world. maybe, more specifically, i am presenting my point of view on life to the entire world, when i, currently still in my years of puberty, would like to think that i am conforming to the greater majority of the global population.
If you know me well, you would know that i shift from one topic to another in quite a sporadic fashion. I shall do this now.
I was thinking of using the word pubescent before. Except i just couldn't find a way to integrate it into my sentence. and secondly because it refers to the onset of puberty. i think i got pass that sub-phase a while ago. But back to the word pubescent. I ran this word through sherlock, a mac program which has a dictionary/thesaurus function integrated within its application architecture. It is not the definition of this word which got my attention, but rather the thesaurus entry accompanying it.

Main Entry: adolescent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pre-adult
Synonyms: boyish, girlish, growing, immature, juvenile, pubescent, puerile, teen, teenage, young, youthful
Antonyms: adult, grown-up, infant, mature

The antonym of pubescent is mature. (ok, technically, i would get a whipping from my english teacher for that assumption)
but seriously, has the world come to disrespect teenagers so as to define the greater majority of them as being IMmature?

Or, in a sort of "equal and opposite pair, Newton's Third Law, action-reaction" way, have WE lost the respect of our elders?

I shall ponder upon these two philosophically challenging questions for the sidereal day.
(Sidereal day - basically how the day is really 4 mins shorter than our claimed 24 hours."Why didn't we just get it right the first time?")